央 (yāng) means Plead (beg - center). Below are 4 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
广场中 央 有一座雕塑。
Guǎngchǎng zhōngyāng yǒu yí zuò diāosù.
There is a sculpture in the middle of the square.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 中央
这项工程由中 央 财政拨款。
Zhè xiàng gōngchéng yóu zhōngyāng cáizhèng bōkuǎn.
This project is funded from the central budget.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 财政
广场中 央 有一座青铜雕塑。
Guǎngchǎng zhōngyāng yǒu yí zuò qīngtóng diāosù.
There is a bronze sculpture in the middle of the square.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 雕塑
这项政策由中 央 统一制定。
Zhè xiàng zhèngcè yóu zhōngyāng tǒngyī zhìdìng.
This policy is set centrally.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 中央
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Words that contain 央
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Questions about 央
How is 央 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 央 (yāng, "Plead (beg - center)"), 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 央 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 央 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 央?
The dictionary page for 央 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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