呼吸

呼吸 hūxī in a sentence

Breathe (respiratory)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 7 sentences

呼吸 (hūxī) means Breathe (respiratory). Below are 7 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

请深 呼吸 一下。

Qǐng shēn hūxī yíxià.

Please take a deep breath.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 呼吸

山上的空气很好, 呼吸 很舒服。

Shān shàng de kōngqì hěn hǎo, hūxī hěn shūfu.

The air on the mountain is good and easy to breathe.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 呼吸

他的 呼吸 很均匀。

Tā de hūxī hěn jūnyún.

His breathing is steady and even.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 均匀

他的 呼吸 变得短促起来。

Tā de hūxī biàn de duǎncù qǐlái.

His breathing became short and rapid.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 短促

深 呼吸 可以让人镇静下来。

Shēn hūxī kěyǐ ràng rén zhènjìng xiàlái.

Deep breathing can calm a person down.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 镇静

气功讲究 呼吸 和姿势的配合。

Qìgōng jiǎngjiu hūxī hé zīshì de pèihé.

Qigong stresses coordinating breathing with posture.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 气功

发射的那一刻,全场屏住了 呼吸 。

Fāshè de nà yí kè, quánchǎng bǐngzhù le hūxī.

At the moment of launch the whole room held its breath.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 发射

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How is 呼吸 used in a sentence?

This page shows 7 sentences using 呼吸 (hūxī, "Breathe (respiratory)"), 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.

Is 呼吸 an HSK word?

Yes — 呼吸 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

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