宽 (kuān) means Wide (generous - lenient - well-off). Below are 11 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
他对孩子比较 宽 。
Tā duì háizi bǐjiào kuān.
He is fairly lenient with the children.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 宽
这张纸 宽 二十厘米。
Zhè zhāng zhǐ kuān èrshí límǐ.
This sheet of paper is twenty centimetres wide.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 厘米
这条路修得很 宽 敞。
Zhè tiáo lù xiū de hěn kuānchang.
This road has been built nice and wide.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 宽敞
这条路又 宽 又平坦。
Zhè tiáo lù yòu kuān yòu píngtǎn.
This road is wide and smooth.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 平坦
他胸怀 宽 广，从不记恨。
Tā xiōnghuái kuānguǎng, cóng bù jìhèn.
He is broad-minded and never bears a grudge.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 胸怀
新家的客厅又 宽 敞又明亮。
Xīn jiā de kètīng yòu kuānchang yòu míngliàng.
The living room of the new home is spacious and bright.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 宽敞
宽 松的环境是创新的土壤。
Kuānsōng de huánjìng shì chuàngxīn de tǔrǎng.
A relaxed environment is the soil in which innovation grows.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 土壤
对别人的错误要多一点 宽 容。
Duì biéren de cuòwù yào duō yìdiǎn kuānróng.
Be a little more tolerant of other people's mistakes.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 宽容
他是个 宽 容的人，很少计较。
Tā shì ge kuānróng de rén, hěn shǎo jìjiào.
He is a tolerant person and rarely takes issue.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 宽容
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From the graded readers
以前的小路变成了很 宽 的马路。
yǐqián de / dì xiǎo lù biànchéng le / liǎo / liào hěn kuān de / dì mǎlù.
The little lane had become a wide road.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Going Back Home
Words that contain 宽
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 宽
How is 宽 used in a sentence?
This page shows 11 sentences using 宽 (kuān, "Wide (generous - lenient - well-off)"), 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 宽 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 宽 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 宽 an HSK word?
Yes — 宽 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 宽?
The dictionary page for 宽 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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