国 (guó) means Country (national - Chinese). Below are 24 of the 141 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
出 国 要带护照。
Chū guó yào dài hùzhào.
You need to take your passport when going abroad.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 护照
我想交中 国 朋友。
Wǒ xiǎng jiāo Zhōngguó péngyou.
I want to make Chinese friends.
Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 朋友
你吃过中 国 菜吗？
Nǐ chī guo Zhōngguó cài ma?
Have you ever eaten Chinese food?
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 过
请填写您的 国 籍。
Qǐng tiánxiě nín de guójí.
Please fill in your nationality.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 国籍
中 国 有很多民族。
Zhōngguó yǒu hěn duō mínzú.
China has many ethnic groups.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 民族
亚洲有很多 国 家。
Yàzhōu yǒu hěn duō guójiā.
There are many countries in Asia.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 亚洲
Reading these is one thing; producing 国 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.
From the graded readers
我是美 国 人，我在中 国 学习汉语。
wǒ shì měiguórén, wǒ zài zhōngguó xuéxí hànyǔ.
I'm American and I'm studying Chinese in China.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
中秋节是中 国 最重要的节日之一。
zhōngqiūjié shì zhōngguó zuì zhòngyào de / dì jiérì zhīyī.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of China's most important holidays.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Mid-Autumn Festival
From the travel phrasebook
我们不发 国 际。
Wǒmen bù fā guójì.
We don't ship internationally.
Travel phrasebook · Sourcing online (1688 and Alibaba)
您来中 国 做什么？
Nín lái Zhōngguó zuò shénme?
What are you coming to China for?
Travel phrasebook · Airport and immigration
From the grammar library
我想去中 国 。
Wǒ xiǎng qù Zhōngguó.
I'd like to go to China.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 想 / 要 / 需要 — want and need
你喜欢中 国 菜吗？
Nǐ xǐhuan Zhōngguó cài ma?
Do you like Chinese food?
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 吗 and 呢 questions
你喜不喜欢中 国 菜？
Nǐ xǐ bu xǐhuan Zhōngguó cài?
Do you like Chinese food?
Grammar library · HSK 2 · A-not-A questions
国 appears in 141 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 国
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 国
How is 国 used in a sentence?
This page shows 141 sentences using 国 (guó, "Country (national - Chinese)"), 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 国 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 国 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 国?
The dictionary page for 国 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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