地震 (dìzhèn) means Earthquake. 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
昨天这里发生了小 地震 。
Zuótiān zhèlǐ fāshēng le xiǎo dìzhèn.
A small earthquake happened here yesterday.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 地震
地震 的时候要保持冷静。
Dìzhèn de shíhou yào bǎochí lěngjìng.
You must stay calm during an earthquake.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 地震
地震 造成了巨大的损失。
Dìzhèn zàochéng le jùdà de sǔnshī.
The earthquake caused huge losses.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 巨大
那场 地震 造成了极其悲惨的后果。
Nà chǎng dìzhèn zàochéng le jíqí bēicǎn de hòuguǒ.
That earthquake caused extremely tragic consequences.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 悲惨
地震 过后，这里只剩下一片废墟。
Dìzhèn guòhòu, zhèlǐ zhǐ shèng xià yí piàn fèixū.
After the earthquake only ruins were left here.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 废墟
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How is 地震 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 地震 (dìzhèn, "Earthquake"), 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 地震 an HSK word?
Yes — 地震 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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