气 (qì) means Gas (air - anger - smell). Below are 24 of the 207 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
早上天 气 还很好。
zǎoshang tiānqì hái / huán hěnhǎo.
The weather was still fine in the morning.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Rainy Day
中午的时候，天 气 很热。
zhōngwǔ de / dì shíhou, tiānqì hěn rè.
By noon it was very hot.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · The Weather Today
下午三点，天 气 不好了。
xiàwǔ sān diǎn, tiānqì bùhǎo le / liǎo / liào.
At three in the afternoon the weather turned.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · The Weather Today
天 气 好的时候，我不坐车。
tiānqì hǎode shíhou, wǒ bù zuò chē.
When the weather's nice, I don't take the bus.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going to School
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
她的脸都红了，一直在喘 气 。
tā de / dì liǎn dōu hóng le / liǎo / liào, yìzhí zài chuǎn qì.
Her face was red and she was breathing hard.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
我站在路边喘 气 ，觉得自己特别可笑。
wǒ zhàn zài lùbiān chuǎn qì, juéde zìjǐ tèbié kěxiào.
I stood by the road getting my breath back, feeling faintly ridiculous.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
我当时非常生 气 ，直接把她的微信删了。
wǒ dāngshí fēicháng shēngqì, zhíjiē bǎ tā de / dì wēi xìn shān le / liǎo / liào.
I was furious and deleted her from WeChat there and then.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
我把辞职的想法告诉家里的时候，爸爸非常生 气 。
wǒ bǎ cízhí de / dì xiǎngfǎ gàosu jiālǐ de / dì shíhou, bàba fēicháng shēngqì.
When I told my family I was thinking of resigning, my father was furious.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
从那以后，我学会了一件事：先问清楚，再生 气 。
cóng nà / nèi yǐhòu, wǒ xuéhuìle yíjiàn shì: xiān wèn qīngchu, zài shēngqì.
Since then I've learned one thing: find out first, get angry afterwards.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
From the travel phrasebook
气 appears in 207 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 气
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 气
How is 气 used in a sentence?
This page shows 207 sentences using 气 (qì, "Gas (air - anger - smell)"), 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 气 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 气 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 气?
The dictionary page for 气 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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