名 míng in a sentence
Name (reputation - famous - mw for people with professions)
名 (míng) means Name (reputation - famous - mw for people with professions). Below are 24 of the 121 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
这位教授很有 名 。
Zhè wèi jiàoshòu hěn yǒumíng.
This professor is very well known.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 教授
北京烤鸭很有 名 。
Běijīng kǎoyā hěn yǒumíng.
Beijing roast duck is very famous.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 烤鸭
请在网站上报 名 。
Qǐng zài wǎngzhàn shàng bàomíng.
Please sign up on the website.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 网站
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From the graded readers
不过对我来说， 名 次并不重要。
búguò duì wǒ láishuō, míngcì bìngbù zhòngyào.
But the placing wasn't what mattered to me.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
发消息的人用的是小林的 名 字。
fā xiāoxi de / dì rén yòng de / dì shì xiǎo lín de / dì míngzi.
The name on the message was Xiaolin's.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
第二天我报 名 参加了一个周末的画画班。
dì'èr tiān wǒ bàomíng cānjiā le / liǎo / liào yīgè zhōumò de / dì huà huà bān.
The next day I signed up for a weekend painting class.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
说实话，我当时并不想参加，是室友帮我报的 名 。
shuō shíhuà, wǒ dāngshí bìngbù xiǎng cānjiā, shì shì yǒu bāng wǒ bào de / dì míng.
To be honest I didn't want to enter; my roommate signed me up.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
照片背面写着一个日期和一个 名 字，可是那个 名 字她也想不起来了。
zhàopiàn bēi miàn xiězhe yīgè rìqī hé yīgè míngzi, kěshì nèigè míngzi tā yě xiǎng bù qǐlai le / liǎo / liào.
On the back was a date and a name, but even she couldn't place the name.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
From the travel phrasebook
我备注一下您的 名 字。
Wǒ bèizhù yíxià nín de míngzi.
Let me save your name.
Travel phrasebook · WeChat and staying in touch
From the grammar library
老师的 名 字很长。
Lǎoshī de míngzi hěn cháng.
The teacher's name is long.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 的 for possession and description
名 appears in 121 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 名
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 名
How is 名 used in a sentence?
This page shows 121 sentences using 名 (míng, "Name (reputation - famous - mw for people with professions)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 名 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 名 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 名?
The dictionary page for 名 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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