汉 (hàn) means Han ([Chinese dynasty]). Below are 24 of the 48 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
说 汉 语要多练习。
Shuō Hànyǔ yào duō liànxí.
You need to practise a lot to speak Chinese.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 练习
学 汉 字不太容易。
Xué Hànzì bú tài róngyì.
Learning Chinese characters isn't very easy.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 容易
我会说一点儿 汉 语。
Wǒ huì shuō yìdiǎnr Hànyǔ.
I can speak a little Chinese.
Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 汉语
我们上午有 汉 语课。
Wǒmen shàngwǔ yǒu Hànyǔ kè.
We have a Chinese class in the morning.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 课
王老师教我们 汉 语。
Wáng lǎoshī jiāo wǒmen Hànyǔ.
Teacher Wang teaches us Chinese.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 教
他的 汉 语水平很高。
Tā de Hànyǔ shuǐpíng hěn gāo.
His level of Chinese is very high.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 水平
学好 汉 语需要时间。
Xué hǎo Hànyǔ xūyào shíjiān.
Learning Chinese well takes time.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 需要
学好 汉 语要下功夫。
Xué hǎo Hànyǔ yào xià gōngfu.
Learning Chinese well takes real effort.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 功夫
他的 汉 语基础很好。
Tā de Hànyǔ jīchǔ hěn hǎo.
He has a solid foundation in Chinese.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 基础
下学期我要学 汉 语。
Xià xuéqī wǒ yào xué Hànyǔ.
Next term I am going to study Chinese.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 学期
他在上高级 汉 语课。
Tā zài shàng gāojí Hànyǔ kè.
He is taking an advanced Chinese class.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 高级
Reading these is one thing; producing 汉 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
From the graded readers
汉 字很难，我常常写错。
hànzì hěn nán, wǒ chángcháng xiě cuò.
Chinese characters are hard and I often write them wrong.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
现在我会说一点儿 汉 语了。
xiànzài wǒ huì shuō yīdiǎn ér hànyǔ le / liǎo / liào.
Now I can speak a little Chinese.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
我是美国人，我在中国学习 汉 语。
wǒ shì měiguórén, wǒ zài zhōngguó xuéxí hànyǔ.
I'm American and I'm studying Chinese in China.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
我的 汉 语不太好，丽丽常常帮我。
wǒ de(possessive) hànyǔ bù tài hǎo / hào, lí lí chángcháng bāng wǒ.
My Chinese isn't very good, and Lili often helps me.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Friend Lili
上午我学习 汉 语，下午我学习英语。
shàngwǔ wǒ xuéxí hànyǔ, xiàwǔ wǒ xuéxí yīngyǔ.
In the morning I study Chinese, and in the afternoon I study English.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Day
From the grammar library
他学习 汉 语。
Tā xuéxí Hànyǔ.
He studies Chinese.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Word order — Subject + Verb + Object
汉 appears in 48 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 汉
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 汉
How is 汉 used in a sentence?
This page shows 48 sentences using 汉 (hàn, "Han ([Chinese dynasty])"), 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 汉 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 汉 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 汉?
The dictionary page for 汉 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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