点 diǎn in a sentence
O'clock (dot - point - mw for suggestions)
点 (diǎn) means O'clock (dot - point - mw for suggestions). Below are 24 of the 368 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
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From the graded readers
八 点 ，我在家吃早饭。
bā diǎn, wǒ zàijiā chī zǎofàn.
At eight I eat breakfast at home.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Day
八 点 半我必须到公司。
bā diǎn bàn wǒ bìxū dào gōngsī.
I have to be at the office by half past eight.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work
那天我做到夜里一 点 。
nà / nèi tiān wǒ zuòdào yèlǐ yīdiǎn.
I worked until one in the morning that night.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
From the travel phrasebook
末班车几 点 ？
Mòbānchē jǐ diǎn?
What time is the last train?
Travel phrasebook · High-speed rail and the metro
From the grammar library
现在两 点 半。
Xiànzài liǎng diǎn bàn.
It's half past two.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 二 vs 两 — two ways to say two
快十二 点 了。
Kuài shí'èr diǎn le.
It's nearly twelve o'clock.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 快…了 / 要…了 — about to happen
请说慢一 点 儿。
Qǐng shuō màn yìdiǎnr.
Please speak a little more slowly.
Grammar library · HSK 3 · 一点儿 vs 有点儿
我们下午三 点 见。
Wǒmen xiàwǔ sān diǎn jiàn.
Let's meet at three this afternoon.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Where time words go
点 appears in 368 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 点
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 点
How is 点 used in a sentence?
This page shows 368 sentences using 点 (diǎn, "O'clock (dot - point - mw for suggestions)"), 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.
Why do some sentences show 点 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 点 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 点 an HSK word?
Yes — 点 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 点?
The dictionary page for 点 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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