任性

任性 rènxìng in a sentence

Headstrong (does as one pleases)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

任性 (rènxìng) means Headstrong (does as one pleases). 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

他有时候很 任性 。

Tā yǒushíhou hěn rènxìng.

He is sometimes very wilful.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 任性

做决定不能太 任性 。

Zuò juédìng bù néng tài rènxìng.

One cannot be too headstrong in making decisions.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 任性

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How is 任性 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 任性 (rènxìng, "Headstrong (does as one pleases)"), 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 任性 an HSK word?

Yes — 任性 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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