善于 (shànyú) means Be good at (adept in). Below are 4 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
她 善于 发现问题。
Tā shànyú fāxiàn wèntí.
She is good at spotting problems.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 善于
他 善于 和人打交道。
Tā shànyú hé rén dǎ jiāodao.
He is good at dealing with people.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 善于
他 善于 捕捉市场的细微变化。
Tā shànyú bǔzhuō shìchǎng de xìwēi biànhuà.
He is good at picking up subtle changes in the market.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 捕捉
好的老师 善于 调动学生的积极性。
Hǎo de lǎoshī shànyú diàodòng xuésheng de jījíxìng.
A good teacher knows how to mobilise students' enthusiasm.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 调动
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Questions about 善于
How is 善于 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 善于 (shànyú, "Be good at (adept in)"), 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 善于 an HSK word?
Yes — 善于 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
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The dictionary page for 善于 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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