声调

声调 shēngdiào in a sentence

tone (note)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 2 sentences

声调 (shēngdiào) means tone (note). Below are 2 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

中文有四个 声调 。

Zhōngwén yǒu sì ge shēngdiào.

Chinese has four tones.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 声调

这个字的 声调 读错了。

Zhège zì de shēngdiào dú cuò le.

The tone of this character was read wrongly.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 声调

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How is 声调 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 声调 (shēngdiào, "tone (note)"), 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 声调 an HSK word?

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

Where can I see the full entry for 声调?

The dictionary page for 声调 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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