保养 (bǎoyǎng) means Maintain (take care of). 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
汽车每半年要 保养 一次。
Qìchē měi bàn nián yào bǎoyǎng yí cì.
A car should be serviced once every six months.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 保养
她很注意 保养 ，看上去比实际年龄年轻。
Tā hěn zhùyì bǎoyǎng, kàn shàngqù bǐ shíjì niánlíng niánqīng.
She takes good care of herself and looks younger than she really is.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 保养
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Questions about 保养
How is 保养 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 保养 (bǎoyǎng, "Maintain (take care of)"), 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 保养 an HSK word?
Yes — 保养 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 保养?
The dictionary page for 保养 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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