这 (zhè / zhèi) means This (these). Below are 24 of the 259 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
From the graded readers
这 次有人接了。
zhècì yǒurén jiē le / liǎo / liào.
This time somebody answered.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
事情是 这 样的。
shìqing shì zhèyàng de / dì.
It happened like this.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
一个下午就 这 样过去了。
yīgè xiàwǔ jiù zhèyàng guòqù le / liǎo / liào.
A whole afternoon had gone, just like that.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend
有 这 样的朋友，我很高兴。
yǒu zhèyàng de / dì péngyou, wǒ hěn gāoxìng.
I'm very glad to have a friend like her.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Friend Lili
说实话，我自己也 这 么想。
shuō shíhuà, wǒ zìjǐ yě zhème xiǎng.
To be honest, I thought the same.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
我以为 这 样大家会喜欢我。
wǒ yǐwéi zhèyàng dàjiā huì xǐhuan wǒ.
I thought people would like me for it.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
From the travel phrasebook
From the grammar library
这 是第二课。
Zhè shì dì-èr kè.
This is Lesson Two.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 二 vs 两 — two ways to say two
你看看 这 个。
Nǐ kànkan zhège.
Have a look at this.
Grammar library · HSK 3 · Verb reduplication — 看看, 试试
这 条裤子很贵。
Zhè tiáo kùzi hěn guì.
These trousers are expensive.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Measure words — the top 25
这 appears in 259 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Questions about 这
How is 这 used in a sentence?
This page shows 259 sentences using 这 (zhè / zhèi, "This (these)"), 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 这 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 这 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 这 an HSK word?
Yes — 这 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 这?
The dictionary page for 这 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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