冻 (dòng) means Freeze. Below are 9 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
河水冬天会 冻 上。
Héshuǐ dōngtiān huì dòng shàng.
The river freezes over in winter.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 冻
外面太冷，我快 冻 坏了。
Wàimiàn tài lěng, wǒ kuài dòng huài le.
It is freezing outside; I am half frozen.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 冻
冬天的土地 冻 得坚硬。
Dōngtiān de tǔdì dòng de jiānyìng.
In winter the ground freezes hard.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 坚硬
他的银行账户被 冻 结了。
Tā de yínháng zhànghù bèi dòngjié le.
His bank account has been frozen.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 冻结
公司决定暂时 冻 结招聘。
Gōngsī juédìng zànshí dòngjié zhāopìn.
The company decided to freeze hiring for the time being.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 冻结
他的手 冻 得失去了知觉。
Tā de shǒu dòng de shīqù le zhījué.
His hands were so cold they lost all feeling.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 知觉
寒风中，她 冻 得全身颤抖。
Hánfēng zhōng, tā dòng de quánshēn chàndǒu.
In the cold wind she shivered all over.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 颤抖
在外面 冻 了一晚，他的手指都僵硬了。
Zài wàimiàn dòng le yì wǎn, tā de shǒuzhǐ dōu jiāngyìng le.
After a night out in the cold his fingers had gone stiff.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 僵硬
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Words that contain 冻
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Questions about 冻
How is 冻 used in a sentence?
This page shows 9 sentences using 冻 (dòng, "Freeze"), 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 冻 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 冻 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 冻 an HSK word?
Yes — 冻 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 冻?
The dictionary page for 冻 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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