晕

晕 yūn / yùn in a sentence

Confused (dizzy - faint - pass out); Lunar halo (glow - giddy)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 5 sentences

晕 (yūn / yùn) means Confused (dizzy - faint - pass out), Lunar halo (glow - giddy). 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

站起来太快会 晕 。

Zhàn qǐlái tài kuài huì yūn.

Standing up too fast makes you dizzy.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 晕

坐船的时候他有点 晕 。

Zuò chuán de shíhou tā yǒudiǎn yūn.

He feels a bit dizzy on a boat.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 晕

长时间的饥饿让他头 晕 。

Cháng shíjiān de jī'è ràng tā tóuyūn.

Long hunger made him dizzy.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 饥饿

他 晕 船,一路都在呕吐。

Tā yūnchuán, yílù dōu zài ǒutù.

He was seasick and threw up the whole way.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 呕吐

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From the graded readers

有一天早上,我起床的时候忽然觉得头很 晕 。

yǒu yī tiān zǎoshang, wǒ qǐchuáng de / dì shíhou hūrán juéde tóu hěn yūn / yùn.

One morning I got up and suddenly felt very dizzy.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure

Questions about 晕

How is 晕 used in a sentence?

This page shows 5 sentences using 晕 (yūn / yùn, "Confused (dizzy - faint - pass out), Lunar halo (glow - giddy)"), 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 晕 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 晕 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 晕 an HSK word?

Yes — 晕 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 晕?

The dictionary page for 晕 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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