心 (xīn) means Heart (mind). Below are 24 of the 217 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
小 心 桌子的角。
Xiǎoxīn zhuōzi de jiǎo.
Careful of the corner of the table.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 角
小 心 别踩草地。
Xiǎoxīn bié cǎi cǎodì.
Be careful not to step on the grass.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 踩
他学习很专 心 。
Tā xuéxí hěn zhuānxīn.
He studies with great concentration.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 专心
小 心 ，地上有水。
Xiǎoxīn, dì shàng yǒu shuǐ.
Careful, there's water on the floor.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 小心
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From the graded readers
周末虽然短，可是我过得很开 心 。
zhōumò suīrán duǎn, kěshì wǒ guòde hěn kāixīn.
The weekend was short, but I enjoyed it.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend
刚开始说的时候，我 心 里很不舒服。
gāng kāishǐ shuō de / dì shíhou, wǒ xīnlǐ hěn bù shūfu.
The first few times I said it, it felt awful.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
最后她说：“不用担 心 我，我很好。”
zuìhòu tā shuō:" búyòng dānxīn wǒ, wǒ hěnhǎo."
At the end she wrote, "Don't worry about me, I'm fine."
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
那家公司在市中 心 ，坐地铁要四十分钟。
nà / nèi jiā gōngsī zài shì zhōngxīn, zuò dìtiě yāo sìshí fēnzhōng.
The company is in the city centre, forty minutes by underground.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
他们笑得很开 心 ，看起来大概二十岁左右。
tāmen xiào dehěn kāixīn, kànqǐlái dàgài èrshí suì zuǒyòu.
They were laughing happily and looked about twenty.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
最难的是第一年，我几乎每个月都在担 心 钱的问题。
zuì nán de / dì shì dìyī nián, wǒ jīhū měi gè yuè dōu zài dānxīn qián de / dì wèntí.
The first year was the hardest — I worried about money almost every month.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
From the travel phrasebook
心 appears in 217 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 心
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 心
How is 心 used in a sentence?
This page shows 217 sentences using 心 (xīn, "Heart (mind)"), 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 心 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 心 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 心?
The dictionary page for 心 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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