缺席 (quēxí) means Be absent. 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
他因为生病 缺席 了会议。
Tā yīnwèi shēngbìng quē xí le huìyì.
He was absent from the meeting because of illness.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 缺席
这次活动谁也不能 缺席 。
Zhè cì huódòng shéi yě bù néng quē xí.
Nobody may be absent from this event.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 缺席
正义也许会迟到，但不会 缺席 。
Zhèngyì yěxǔ huì chídào, dàn bú huì quēxí.
Justice may be late but it will not fail to come.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 正义
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How is 缺席 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 缺席 (quēxí, "Be absent"), 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 缺席 an HSK word?
Yes — 缺席 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 缺席 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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