孩 (hái) means Child. Below are 24 of the 179 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
孩 子们在外面玩。
Háizimen zài wàimiàn wán.
The children are playing outside.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 外
她在家照顾 孩 子。
Tā zài jiā zhàogù háizi.
She looks after the children at home.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 照顾
他背着 孩 子上楼。
Tā bēi zhe háizi shàng lóu.
He carried the child upstairs on his back.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 背
他很会逗 孩 子笑。
Tā hěn huì dòu háizi xiào.
He is good at making children laugh.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 逗
小女 孩 想当公主。
Xiǎo nǚhái xiǎng dāng gōngzhǔ.
The little girl wants to be a princess.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 公主
他对 孩 子比较宽。
Tā duì háizi bǐjiào kuān.
He is fairly lenient with the children.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 宽
雷声吓醒了 孩 子。
Léi shēng xià xǐng le háizi.
The thunder startled the child awake.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 雷
这 孩 子口齿伶俐。
Zhè háizi kǒuchǐ línglì.
This child is a fluent little speaker.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 伶俐
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From the graded readers
是一个女 孩 子，她说：“你的手机掉在图书馆的椅子下边了。”
shì yīgè nǚhái zǐ, tā shuō:" nǐ de shǒujī diào zài túshūguǎn de / dì yǐ zǐ xià biān le / liǎo / liào."
It was a young woman. She said, "Your phone had fallen under a chair in the library."
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
From the grammar library
我有两个 孩 子。
Wǒ yǒu liǎng ge háizi.
I have two children.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 有 — have and there is
孩 子把蛋糕吃光了。
Háizi bǎ dàngāo chīguāng le.
The kids finished off the cake.
Grammar library · HSK 3 · 把 sentences
孩 appears in 179 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 孩
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 孩
How is 孩 used in a sentence?
This page shows 179 sentences using 孩 (hái, "Child"), 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 孩 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 孩 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 孩?
The dictionary page for 孩 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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