流氓

流氓 liúmáng in a sentence

Hoodlum (immoral behavior)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

流氓 (liúmáng) means Hoodlum (immoral behavior). 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

警方抓住了几个 流氓 。

Jǐngfāng zhuāzhù le jǐ ge liúmáng.

The police caught several hooligans.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 流氓

这种行为简直就是 流氓 。

Zhè zhǒng xíngwéi jiǎnzhí jiù shì liúmáng.

This kind of behaviour is simply thuggish.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 流氓

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How is 流氓 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 流氓 (liúmáng, "Hoodlum (immoral behavior)"), 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 流氓 an HSK word?

Yes — 流氓 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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The dictionary page for 流氓 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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