光 (guāng) means Light (glory - bare - smooth). Below are 24 of the 75 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
太阳 光 照进了房间。
Tàiyáng guāng zhào jìn le fángjiān.
Sunlight shone into the room.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 光
今天的阳 光 很好。
Jīntiān de yángguāng hěn hǎo.
The sunshine is lovely today.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 阳光
阳 光 照进了房间。
Yángguāng zhào jìn le fángjiān.
Sunlight shone into the room.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 阳光
阳 光 照耀着大地。
Yángguāng zhàoyàozhe dàdì.
The sunlight shines upon the earth.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 照耀
桌子的表面很 光 滑。
Zhuōzi de biǎomiàn hěn guānghuá.
The surface of the table is very smooth.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 表面
阳 光 斜着照进屋子。
Yángguāng xié zhe zhào jìn wūzi.
The sunlight slants into the room.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 斜
光 说不够，要行动。
Guāng shuō bú gòu, yào xíngdòng.
Talking is not enough; you have to act.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 行动
她脸上焕发着 光 彩。
Tā liǎn shang huànfāzhe guāngcǎi.
Her face glowed with radiance.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 光彩
那段时 光 让人怀念。
Nà duàn shíguāng ràng rén huáiniàn.
Those days are worth remembering fondly.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 时光
他看人的眼 光 很准。
Tā kàn rén de yǎnguāng hěn zhǔn.
He is a very good judge of people.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 眼光
这棵树遮挡了阳 光 。
Zhè kē shù zhēdǎng le yángguāng.
This tree blocks the sunlight.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 遮挡
地面很 光 滑，小心点。
Dìmiàn hěn guānghuá, xiǎoxīn diǎn.
The floor is slippery; be careful.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 光滑
现在很少人用 光 盘了。
Xiànzài hěn shǎo rén yòng guāngpán le.
Few people use CDs now.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 光盘
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From the graded readers
新房子比原来的小一点儿，不过窗户大， 光 线好。
xīnfáng zǐ bǐ yuánlái de / dì xiǎo yīdiǎn ér, búguò chuāng hù dà, guāngxiàn hǎo / hào.
The new place is a little smaller, but the windows are big and the light is good.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
From the grammar library
孩子把蛋糕吃 光 了。
Háizi bǎ dàngāo chīguāng le.
The kids finished off the cake.
Grammar library · HSK 3 · 把 sentences
光 appears in 75 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.
Words that contain 光
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 光
How is 光 used in a sentence?
This page shows 75 sentences using 光 (guāng, "Light (glory - bare - smooth)"), 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 光 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 光 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 光 an HSK word?
Yes — 光 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 光?
The dictionary page for 光 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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