别扭

别扭 bièniu in a sentence

Irritable (difficult - disagreeable)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

别扭 (bièniu) means Irritable (difficult - disagreeable). 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

这句话读起来有点 别扭 。

Zhè jù huà dú qǐlái yǒudiǎn bièniu.

This sentence reads a little awkwardly.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 别扭

两人闹 别扭 ,好几天没说话。

Liǎng rén nào bièniu, hǎojǐ tiān méi shuōhuà.

The two of them fell out and did not speak for several days.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 别扭

Reading these is one thing; producing 别扭 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.

Questions about 别扭

How is 别扭 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 别扭 (bièniu, "Irritable (difficult - disagreeable)"), 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 别扭 an HSK word?

Yes — 别扭 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 别扭?

The dictionary page for 别扭 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.

Keep going

Read the full entry for 别扭, write a sentence of your own and check it in the Pinyin Annotator, drill it with HSK 6 flashcards, or search the whole sentence bank for another word.

Another word

Chinese, pinyin or English. Tone marks optional.