灯笼 (dēnglóng) means Lantern †. 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
孩子提着 灯笼 在院子里跑。
Háizi tízhe dēnglong zài yuànzi lǐ pǎo.
The child ran round the yard carrying a lantern.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 灯笼
过节的时候家家门口都挂着红 灯笼 。
Guòjié de shíhou jiājiā ménkǒu dōu guàzhe hóng dēnglong.
At festival time every doorway hangs a red lantern.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 灯笼
门口悬挂着两只红 灯笼 。
Ménkǒu xuánguàzhe liǎng zhī hóng dēnglong.
Two red lanterns hang at the door.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 悬挂
元宵节晚上到处挂着 灯笼 。
Yuánxiāo Jié wǎnshang dàochù guàzhe dēnglong.
On the night of the Lantern Festival lanterns hang everywhere.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 元宵节
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Questions about 灯笼
How is 灯笼 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 灯笼 (dēnglóng, "Lantern †"), 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 灯笼 an HSK word?
Yes — 灯笼 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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