明白 (míngbai) means Understand (clear). Below are 19 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
我 明白 你的意思了。
Wǒ míngbai nǐ de yìsi le.
I understand what you mean now.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 明白
老师讲了两次，我才 明白 。
Lǎoshī jiǎng le liǎng cì, wǒ cái míngbai.
The teacher explained twice before I understood.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 明白
我不太 明白 他的意图。
Wǒ bú tài míngbai tā de yìtú.
I do not quite understand his intention.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 意图
他迟早会 明白 你的心意。
Tā chízǎo huì míngbai nǐ de xīnyì.
Sooner or later he will understand your feelings.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 迟早
他立刻 明白 了我的意思。
Tā lìkè míngbai le wǒ de yìsi.
He understood my meaning at once.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 立刻
哦，我 明白 你的意思了。
Ò, wǒ míngbai nǐ de yìsi le.
Oh, I see what you mean now.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 哦
从她的眼神我就 明白 了。
Cóng tā de yǎnshén wǒ jiù míngbai le.
I understood from the look in her eyes.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 眼神
他琢磨了半天才想 明白 。
Tā zuómo le bàntiān cái xiǎng míngbai.
He turned it over for a long while before he understood.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 琢磨
长大后才 明白 唠叨也是关心。
Zhǎngdà hòu cái míngbai láodao yě shì guānxīn.
Only when grown up did I see that nagging is also caring.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 唠叨
我纳闷儿了半天也没想 明白 。
Wǒ nà mènr le bàntiān yě méi xiǎng míngbai.
I puzzled over it for ages and still could not work it out.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 纳闷儿
那一刹那，他忽然 明白 了一切。
Nà yí chànà, tā hūrán míngbai le yíqiè.
In that split second he suddenly understood everything.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 刹那
读到最后，我才 明白 这种境界。
Dú dào zuìhòu, wǒ cái míngbai zhè zhǒng jìngjiè.
Only at the end of my reading did I understand this state of mind.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 境界
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From the graded readers
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
Questions about 明白
How is 明白 used in a sentence?
This page shows 19 sentences using 明白 (míngbai, "Understand (clear)"), 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 明白 an HSK word?
Yes — 明白 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
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