出神 chūshén in a sentence
Spellbound; entranced; lost in thought†
出神 (chūshén) means Spellbound, entranced, lost in thought †. 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
他望着窗外 出神 ，没听见我叫他。
Tā wàngzhe chuāng wài chū shén, méi tīngjiàn wǒ jiào tā.
He was staring out of the window lost in thought and did not hear me call.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 出神
她看得 出神 ，连水开了都不知道。
Tā kàn de chū shén, lián shuǐ kāi le dōu bù zhīdào.
She was so absorbed in reading that she did not notice the water boiling.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 出神
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How is 出神 used in a sentence?
This page shows 2 sentences using 出神 (chūshén, "Spellbound, entranced, lost in thought †"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
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Is 出神 an HSK word?
Yes — 出神 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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