灿烂 (cànlàn) means Glitter (bright - glorious). Below are 3 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
孩子露出了 灿烂 的笑容。
Háizi lòuchū le cànlàn de xiàoróng.
The child broke into a brilliant smile.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 灿烂
夕阳把天边染得一片 灿烂 。
Xīyáng bǎ tiānbiān rǎn de yí piàn cànlàn.
The setting sun dyed the horizon in a blaze of colour.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 灿烂
这片土地孕育了 灿烂 的文化。
Zhè piàn tǔdì yùnyù le cànlàn de wénhuà.
This land gave birth to a brilliant culture.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 孕育
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Questions about 灿烂
How is 灿烂 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 灿烂 (cànlàn, "Glitter (bright - glorious)"), 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 灿烂 an HSK word?
Yes — 灿烂 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 灿烂 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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