tián in a sentence

Sweet

Full dictionary entry HSK 3 7 sentences

甜 (tián) means Sweet. Below are 7 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

这个西瓜真

Zhège xīguā zhēn tián.

This watermelon is really sweet.

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我不喜欢吃太 的东西。

Wǒ bù xǐhuan chī tài tián de dōngxi.

I don't like eating things that are too sweet.

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生日蛋糕很

Shēngrì dàngāo hěn tián.

The birthday cake is very sweet.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 蛋糕

这种水果很

Zhè zhǒng shuǐguǒ hěn tián.

This kind of fruit is very sweet.

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夏天的水果特别

Xiàtiān de shuǐguǒ tèbié tián.

Summer fruit is especially sweet.

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少吃 的就不容易胖。

Shǎo chī tián de jiù bù róngyì pàng.

Eat fewer sweet things and you won't put on weight so easily.

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From the graded readers

同事送了我两个月饼,一个是 的,一个是咸的。

tóngshì sòng le / liǎo / liào wǒ liǎng gè yuè bǐng, yīgè shì tián de / dì, yīgè shì xián de / dì.

A colleague had given me two mooncakes, one sweet and one savoury.

Graded reader · HSK 3 · Mid-Autumn Festival

Questions about 甜

How is 甜 used in a sentence?

This page shows 7 sentences using 甜 (tián, "Sweet"), 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 甜 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 甜 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 甜 an HSK word?

Yes — 甜 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 甜?

The dictionary page for 甜 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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