鼓励 (gǔlì) means Encourage. 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
老师 鼓励 我参加比赛。
Lǎoshī gǔlì wǒ cānjiā bǐsài.
The teacher encouraged me to enter the competition.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 鼓励
他的话给了我很大的 鼓励 。
Tā de huà gěi le wǒ hěn dà de gǔlì.
His words gave me great encouragement.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 鼓励
社会应该 鼓励 见义勇为。
Shèhuì yīnggāi gǔlì jiànyìyǒngwéi.
Society should encourage standing up bravely for what is right.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 见义勇为
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Questions about 鼓励
How is 鼓励 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 鼓励 (gǔlì, "Encourage"), 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 鼓励 an HSK word?
Yes — 鼓励 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
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The dictionary page for 鼓励 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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