沾光

沾光 zhān'guāng in a sentence

Benefit from another (profits at one's expense)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

沾光 (zhān'guāng) means Benefit from another (profits at one's expense). Below are 2 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

他从不想靠别人 沾光 。

Tā cóng bù xiǎng kào biéren zhān guāng.

He never wants to get ahead on someone else's coat-tails.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 沾光

这次我可是 沾光 了,托他的福。

Zhè cì wǒ kěshì zhān guāng le, tuō tā de fú.

This time I did benefit from the association, thanks to him.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 沾光

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How is 沾光 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 沾光 (zhān'guāng, "Benefit from another (profits at one's expense)"), 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 沾光 an HSK word?

Yes — 沾光 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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