蝴蝶

蝴蝶 húdié in a sentence

Butterfly

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 4 sentences

蝴蝶 (húdié) means Butterfly. Below are 4 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

花园里有一只 蝴蝶 。

Huāyuán lǐ yǒu yì zhī húdié.

There is a butterfly in the garden.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 蝴蝶

蝴蝶 在花上飞来飞去。

Húdié zài huā shàng fēi lái fēi qù.

The butterfly flits about over the flowers.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 蝴蝶

蝴蝶 的翅膀是对称的。

Húdié de chìbǎng shì duìchèn de.

A butterfly's wings are symmetrical.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 对称

博物馆里陈列着各种 蝴蝶 标本。

Bówùguǎn lǐ chénlièzhe gèzhǒng húdié biāoběn.

All sorts of butterfly specimens are displayed in the museum.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 标本

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Questions about 蝴蝶

How is 蝴蝶 used in a sentence?

This page shows 4 sentences using 蝴蝶 (húdié, "Butterfly"), 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 蝴蝶 an HSK word?

Yes — 蝴蝶 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

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