基础 (jīchǔ) means Foundation (basic). 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
他的汉语 基础 很好。
Tā de Hànyǔ jīchǔ hěn hǎo.
He has a solid foundation in Chinese.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 基础
打好 基础 非常重要。
Dǎ hǎo jīchǔ fēicháng zhòngyào.
Building a good foundation is very important.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 基础
勤奋是成功的 基础 。
Qínfèn shì chénggōng de jīchǔ.
Diligence is the foundation of success.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 勤奋
他的数学 基础 比较薄弱。
Tā de shùxué jīchǔ bǐjiào bóruò.
His grounding in maths is rather weak.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 薄弱
司法公正是社会的 基础 。
Sīfǎ gōngzhèng shì shèhuì de jīchǔ.
Judicial fairness is the foundation of society.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 司法
这项研究奠定了整个学科的 基础 。
Zhè xiàng yánjiū diàndìng le zhěnggè xuékē de jīchǔ.
This research laid the foundation of the whole discipline.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 奠定
这几年的积累为他打下了坚实的 基础 。
Zhè jǐ nián de jīlěi wèi tā dǎ xià le jiānshí de jīchǔ.
These years of accumulation laid a solid foundation for him.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 坚实
他掌握了 基础 ，进而学习更难的内容。
Tā zhǎngwò le jīchǔ, jìn'ér xuéxí gèng nán de nèiróng.
He mastered the basics and went on to study harder material.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 进而
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How is 基础 used in a sentence?
This page shows 8 sentences using 基础 (jīchǔ, "Foundation (basic)"), 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 基础 an HSK word?
Yes — 基础 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
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The dictionary page for 基础 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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