延长 (yáncháng) means Extend (prolong). Below are 4 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
他的签证 延长 了一年。
Tā de qiānzhèng yáncháng le yì nián.
His visa was extended by a year.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 延长
会议时间 延长 了半小时。
Huìyì shíjiān yáncháng le bàn xiǎoshí.
The meeting was extended by half an hour.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 延长
拘留期限不能随意 延长 。
Jūliú qīxiàn bù néng suíyì yáncháng.
The period of detention cannot be extended at will.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 拘留
拍夜景的时候要 延长 曝光时间。
Pāi yèjǐng de shíhou yào yáncháng bàoguāng shíjiān.
When photographing night scenes you need a longer exposure time.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 曝光
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Questions about 延长
How is 延长 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 延长 (yáncháng, "Extend (prolong)"), 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 延长 an HSK word?
Yes — 延长 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 延长?
The dictionary page for 延长 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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