吃惊 (chījīng) means Startled (suprised). Below is the one sentence on this site that uses it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
From the graded readers
现在几乎没有人写信了，所以我很 吃惊 。
xiànzài jīhū méiyǒu rén xiěxìn le / liǎo / liào, suǒyǐ wǒ hěn chījīng.
Almost nobody writes letters now, so I was surprised.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
Questions about 吃惊
How is 吃惊 used in a sentence?
This page shows 1 sentence using 吃惊 (chījīng, "Startled (suprised)"), 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 吃惊 an HSK word?
Yes — 吃惊 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 吃惊?
The dictionary page for 吃惊 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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