明 (míng) means Bright (clear - obvious - understand). Below are 24 of the 206 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
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From the graded readers
十一点，我睡觉。 明 天见！
shíyī diǎn, wǒ shuìjiào. míngtiān jiàn!
At eleven I go to sleep. See you tomorrow!
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Day
明 天天气会好吗？我不知道。
míngtiān tiānqì huì hǎo / hào mǎ? wǒ bùzhī dào.
Will the weather be good tomorrow? I don't know.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · The Weather Today
妈妈笑了：“没关系， 明 天再买吧。”
māma xiào le / liǎo / liào:" méiguānxi, míngtiān zài mǎi bā."
Mum laughed: "Never mind, buy it tomorrow."
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
我忽然 明 白，时间带走的不只是样子。
wǒ hūrán míngbai, shíjiān dàizǒu de / dì bùzhǐ shì yàngzi.
I suddenly understood that what time takes away isn't only how you look.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
我也终于 明 白，能长期做下去的，才叫努力。
wǒ yě zhōngyú míngbai, néng chángqī zuò xiàqu de / dì, cái jiào nǔlì.
And I finally understood that only what you can keep doing counts as effort.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure
那一刻我 明 白了，其实我一直都可以，只是不相信自己。
nà / nèi yīkè wǒ míngbaile, qíshí wǒ yìzhí dōu kěyǐ, zhǐshì bù xiāngxìn zìjǐ.
In that moment I understood that I'd always been able to — I just hadn't believed it.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
那一刻我忽然 明 白：不懂得拒绝的人，时间是不值钱的。
nà / nèi yīkè wǒ hūrán míngbai: bù dǒngde jùjué de / dì rén, shíjiān shì bùzhí qián de / dì.
In that moment I understood: for someone who can't refuse, their time is worth nothing.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
From the travel phrasebook
明 天上午的。
Míngtiān shàngwǔ de.
For tomorrow morning.
Travel phrasebook · High-speed rail and the metro
现货， 明 天发。
Xiànhuò, míngtiān fā.
In stock, ships tomorrow.
Travel phrasebook · Sourcing online (1688 and Alibaba)
改成 明 天可以吗？
Gǎi chéng míngtiān kěyǐ ma?
Can I change it to tomorrow?
Travel phrasebook · High-speed rail and the metro
From the grammar library
明 天我不去。
Míngtiān wǒ bú qù.
I'm not going tomorrow.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 不 vs 没 — the two negations
我 明 天去北京。
Wǒ míngtiān qù Běijīng.
I'm going to Beijing tomorrow.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Where time words go
我们 明 天去北京。
Wǒmen míngtiān qù Běijīng.
We are going to Beijing tomorrow.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Word order — Subject + Verb + Object
我 明 天要去北京。
Wǒ míngtiān yào qù Běijīng.
I'm going to Beijing tomorrow.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 想 / 要 / 需要 — want and need
明 天就要考试了。
Míngtiān jiùyào kǎoshì le.
The exam is tomorrow already.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 快…了 / 要…了 — about to happen
明 appears in 206 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 明
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Questions about 明
How is 明 used in a sentence?
This page shows 206 sentences using 明 (míng, "Bright (clear - obvious - understand)"), 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 明 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 明 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 明?
The dictionary page for 明 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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