喘 (chuǎn) means Gasp (asthma). Below are 5 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
跑完五公里，他累得直 喘 气。
Pǎo wán wǔ gōnglǐ, tā lèi de zhí chuǎnqì.
After running five kilometres he was panting with exhaustion.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 喘气
忙了一上午，他连 喘 气的时间都没有。
Máng le yí shàngwǔ, tā lián chuǎnqì de shíjiān dōu méiyǒu.
Busy all morning, he did not even have time to catch his breath.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 喘气
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From the graded readers
她的脸都红了，一直在 喘 气。
tā de / dì liǎn dōu hóng le / liǎo / liào, yìzhí zài chuǎn qì.
Her face was red and she was breathing hard.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
我站在路边 喘 气，觉得自己特别可笑。
wǒ zhàn zài lùbiān chuǎn qì, juéde zìjǐ tèbié kěxiào.
I stood by the road getting my breath back, feeling faintly ridiculous.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
From the travel phrasebook
Words that contain 喘
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 喘
How is 喘 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 喘 (chuǎn, "Gasp (asthma)"), 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.
Why do some sentences show 喘 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 喘 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 喘?
The dictionary page for 喘 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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