招待 (zhāodài) means Entertain ([guests] - reception). Below are 5 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
他热情地 招待 了客人。
Tā rèqíng de zhāodài le kèren.
He entertained the guests warmly.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 招待
招待 所就在学校旁边。
Zhāodàisuǒ jiù zài xuéxiào pángbiān.
The guest house is right beside the school.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 招待
谢谢你们的盛情 招待 。
Xièxie nǐmen de shèngqíng zhāodài.
Thank you for your generous hospitality.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 盛情
主人热情地 招待 了我们。
Zhǔrén rèqíng de zhāodài le wǒmen.
The host received us warmly.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 主人
招待 不周，怠慢各位了。
Zhāodài bù zhōu, dàimàn gèwèi le.
Forgive our poor hospitality; we have neglected you.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 怠慢
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How is 招待 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 招待 (zhāodài, "Entertain ([guests] - reception)"), 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 招待 an HSK word?
Yes — 招待 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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