码头 (mǎtou) means Wharf; dock; quay; pier †. 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
船已经靠上了 码头 。
Chuán yǐjīng kào shàng le mǎtou.
The ship has already come alongside the wharf.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 码头
码头 上堆满了集装箱。
Mǎtou shang duī mǎn le jízhuāngxiāng.
The dock is piled high with containers.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 码头
工人正在 码头 装卸货物。
Gōngrén zhèngzài mǎtou zhuāngxiè huòwù.
The workers are loading and unloading goods at the wharf.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 装卸
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Questions about 码头
How is 码头 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 码头 (mǎtou, "Wharf; dock; quay; pier †"), 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 码头 an HSK word?
Yes — 码头 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 码头?
The dictionary page for 码头 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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