条 tiáo in a sentence
A strip (mw for long narrow things and news and limbs and lives)
条 (tiáo) means A strip (mw for long narrow things and news and limbs and lives). Below are 24 of the 30 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
这 条 街道上有很多花。
Zhè tiáo jiēdào shàng yǒu hěn duō huā.
There are lots of flowers along this street.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 条
这些面 条 真好吃！
Zhèxiē miàntiáo zhēn hǎochī!
These noodles are really tasty!
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 好吃
我想买一 条 新裤子。
Wǒ xiǎng mǎi yì tiáo xīn kùzi.
I want to buy a new pair of trousers.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 裤子
这 条 路有五百米长。
Zhè tiáo lù yǒu wǔbǎi mǐ cháng.
This road is five hundred metres long.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 米
From the graded readers
那天我在群里看到一 条 消息，说我做事不认真。
nà / nèi tiān wǒ zài qún lǐ kàndào yī tiáo xiāoxi, shuō wǒ zuòshì bù rènzhēn.
That day I saw a message in a group chat saying I didn't take my work seriously.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
那 条 消息是她十四岁的弟弟发的，本来是开玩笑。
nà / nèi tiáo xiāoxi shì tā shísì suì de / dì dìdi fā de / dì, běnlái shì kāiwánxiào.
The message had been sent by her fourteen-year-old brother, as a joke.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
我在同一 条 街上走了三遍，才发现自己一直在转圈。
wǒ zài tóngyī tiáo jiēshàng zǒule sān biàn, cái fāxiàn zìjǐ yìzhí zài zhuǎn / zhuàn juān.
I'd walked down the same street three times before I realised I was going in circles.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Getting Lost
那天晚上，我给她发了一 条 很长的消息，向她道歉。
nà / nèi tiān wǎnshang, wǒ gěi tā fā le / liǎo / liào yī tiáo hěn cháng / zhǎng de / dì xiāoxi, xiàng tā dàoqiàn.
That night I sent her a long message apologising.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
现在我给自己定了一 条 规矩：晚上十一点以后不看工作的消息。
xiànzài wǒ gěi zìjǐ dìngle yī tiáo guīju: wǎnshang shíyī diǎn yǐhòu bù kàn / kān gōngzuò de / dì xiāoxi.
Now I have one rule for myself: no work messages after eleven at night.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure
From the travel phrasebook
这 条 我们需要改。
Zhè tiáo wǒmen xūyào gǎi.
We need to change this clause.
Travel phrasebook · Negotiating and pricing
From the grammar library
这 条 裤子很贵。
Zhè tiáo kùzi hěn guì.
These trousers are expensive.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Measure words — the top 25
我用筷子吃面 条 。
Wǒ yòng kuàizi chī miàntiáo.
I eat noodles with chopsticks.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Word order — Subject + Verb + Object
条 appears in 30 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 条
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 条
How is 条 used in a sentence?
This page shows 30 sentences using 条 (tiáo, "A strip (mw for long narrow things and news and limbs and lives)"), 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 条 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 条 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 条 an HSK word?
Yes — 条 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 条?
The dictionary page for 条 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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