压抑

压抑 yāyì in a sentence

Supress (contain)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

压抑 (yāyì) means Supress (contain). 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

他一直 压抑 着自己的情绪。

Tā yìzhí yāyìzhe zìjǐ de qíngxù.

He has been bottling up his feelings.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 压抑

屋里的气氛让人感到 压抑 。

Wū lǐ de qìfēn ràng rén gǎndào yāyì.

The atmosphere in the room felt oppressive.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 压抑

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How is 压抑 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 压抑 (yāyì, "Supress (contain)"), 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 压抑 an HSK word?

Yes — 压抑 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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