消费 (xiāofèi) means Consume. Below are 4 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
这里的 消费 不高。
Zhèlǐ de xiāofèi bù gāo.
The cost of living here is not high.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 消费
年轻人的 消费 习惯变了。
Niánqīng rén de xiāofèi xíguàn biàn le.
Young people's spending habits have changed.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 消费
消费 者用行动抵制假冒商品。
Xiāofèizhě yòng xíngdòng dǐzhì jiǎmào shāngpǐn.
Consumers boycott counterfeit goods through their actions.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 抵制
这家公司瞄准了年轻 消费 者。
Zhè jiā gōngsī miáozhǔn le niánqīng xiāofèizhě.
This company is targeting young consumers.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 瞄准
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Questions about 消费
How is 消费 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 消费 (xiāofèi, "Consume"), 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 消费 an HSK word?
Yes — 消费 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
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The dictionary page for 消费 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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