圈 (juān) means Circle (confine - enclosure). Below are 8 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
他在操场上跑了两 圈 。
Tā zài cāochǎng shàng pǎo le liǎng quān.
He ran two laps on the sports field.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 圈
请在正确的答案上画个 圈 。
Qǐng zài zhèngquè de dá'àn shàng huà ge quān.
Please draw a circle around the right answer.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 圈
教练让我们再跑一 圈 。
Jiàoliàn ràng wǒmen zài pǎo yì quān.
The coach told us to run another lap.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 教练
我们绕着湖走了一 圈 。
Wǒmen rào zhe hú zǒu le yì quān.
We walked once around the lake.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 绕
他不小心落入了 圈 套。
Tā bù xiǎoxīn luòrù le quāntào.
He carelessly fell into the trap.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 圈套
我们开车在城里兜了一 圈 。
Wǒmen kāichē zài chéng lǐ dōu le yì quān.
We drove a loop around the city.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 兜
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From the graded readers
我在同一条街上走了三遍，才发现自己一直在转 圈 。
wǒ zài tóngyī tiáo jiēshàng zǒule sān biàn, cái fāxiàn zìjǐ yìzhí zài zhuǎn / zhuàn juān.
I'd walked down the same street three times before I realised I was going in circles.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Getting Lost
Words that contain 圈
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 圈
How is 圈 used in a sentence?
This page shows 8 sentences using 圈 (juān, "Circle (confine - enclosure)"), 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 圈 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 圈 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 圈 an HSK word?
Yes — 圈 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 圈?
The dictionary page for 圈 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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