形容

形容 xíngróng in a sentence

Describes (look or appearance)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 2 sentences

形容 (xíngróng) means Describes (look or appearance). Below are 2 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

请 形容 一下他的样子。

Qǐng xíngróng yíxià tā de yàngzi.

Please describe what he looks like.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 形容

很难用语言 形容 那种感觉。

Hěn nán yòng yǔyán xíngróng nà zhǒng gǎnjué.

It is hard to describe that feeling in words.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 形容

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How is 形容 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 形容 (xíngróng, "Describes (look or appearance)"), 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 形容 an HSK word?

Yes — 形容 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

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The dictionary page for 形容 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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