宵 (xiāo) means Night. 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
正月十五要吃元 宵 。
Zhēngyuè shíwǔ yào chī yuánxiāo.
On the fifteenth of the first lunar month one eats sweet dumplings.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 正月
元 宵 节人们会吃汤圆。
Yuánxiāo Jié rénmen huì chī tāngyuán.
At the Lantern Festival people eat sweet rice balls.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 元宵节
元 宵 节有猜谜语的习俗。
Yuánxiāo Jié yǒu cāi míyǔ de xísú.
There is a custom of guessing riddles at the Lantern Festival.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 谜语
元 宵 节晚上到处挂着灯笼。
Yuánxiāo Jié wǎnshang dàochù guàzhe dēnglong.
On the night of the Lantern Festival lanterns hang everywhere.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 元宵节
为了赶项目，他熬了三个通 宵 。
Wèile gǎn xiàngmù, tā áo le sān ge tōngxiāo.
He stayed up three whole nights to get the project finished.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 熬
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Words that contain 宵
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Questions about 宵
How is 宵 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 宵 (xiāo, "Night"), 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 宵 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 宵 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 宵?
The dictionary page for 宵 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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