规矩 (guīju) means Norm (well-behaved). 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
他不愿被 规矩 束缚。
Tā bú yuàn bèi guīju shùfù.
He is unwilling to be bound by convention.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 束缚
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From the graded readers
现在我给自己定了一条 规矩 ：晚上十一点以后不看工作的消息。
xiànzài wǒ gěi zìjǐ dìngle yī tiáo guīju: wǎnshang shíyī diǎn yǐhòu bù kàn / kān gōngzuò de / dì xiāoxi.
Now I have one rule for myself: no work messages after eleven at night.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure
Questions about 规矩
How is 规矩 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 规矩 (guīju, "Norm (well-behaved)"), 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 规矩 an HSK word?
Yes — 规矩 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 规矩?
The dictionary page for 规矩 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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