故障 (gùzhàng) means Faulty (breakdown). Below are 3 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
师傅很快排除了 故障 。
Shīfu hěn kuài páichú le gùzhàng.
The technician soon cleared the fault.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 故障
电梯出现 故障 ，暂时停用。
Diàntī chūxiàn gùzhàng, zànshí tíngyòng.
The lift has broken down and is out of service for now.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 故障
工人很快排除了 故障 。
Gōngrén hěn kuài páichú le gùzhàng.
The workers soon cleared the fault.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 排除
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Questions about 故障
How is 故障 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 故障 (gùzhàng, "Faulty (breakdown)"), 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 故障 an HSK word?
Yes — 故障 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 故障?
The dictionary page for 故障 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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