首都

首都 shǒudū in a sentence

Capital ([city])

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 2 sentences

首都 (shǒudū) means Capital ([city]). Below are 2 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

北京是中国的 首都

Běijīng shì Zhōngguó de shǒudū.

Beijing is the capital of China.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 首都

我们打算去 首都 参观。

Wǒmen dǎsuàn qù shǒudū cānguān.

We plan to visit the capital.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 首都

Questions about 首都

How is 首都 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 首都 (shǒudū, "Capital ([city])"), 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 首都 an HSK word?

Yes — 首都 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 首都?

The dictionary page for 首都 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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