堂 (táng) means Auditorium (hall - large room). Below are 6 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
他在课 堂 上很活跃。
Tā zài kètáng shàng hěn huóyuè.
He is very active in class.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 活跃
这个礼 堂 能容纳一千人。
Zhège lǐtáng néng róngnà yìqiān rén.
This hall can hold a thousand people.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 容纳
课 堂 是老师的主要阵地。
Kètáng shì lǎoshī de zhǔyào zhèndì.
The classroom is a teacher's main ground.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 阵地
这里简直是购物者的天 堂 。
Zhèlǐ jiǎnzhí shì gòuwùzhě de tiāntáng.
This place is simply a shopper's paradise.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 天堂
对他来说，图书馆就是天 堂 。
Duì tā láishuō, túshūguǎn jiù shì tiāntáng.
For him the library is heaven.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 天堂
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From the graded readers
那天下午，礼 堂 里坐了差不多三百个人。
nà / nèi tiānxià wǔ, lǐtáng lǐ zuò le / liǎo / liào chàbuduō sānbǎi gèrén.
That afternoon there were nearly three hundred people in the hall.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
Words that contain 堂
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Questions about 堂
How is 堂 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 堂 (táng, "Auditorium (hall - large room)"), 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 堂 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 堂 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 堂?
The dictionary page for 堂 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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