忌讳 jìhuì in a sentence
Taboo; to avoid as taboo; to abstain from†
忌讳 (jìhuì) means Taboo, to avoid as taboo, to abstain from †. 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
这是当地人的一个 忌讳 。
Zhè shì dāngdì rén de yí ge jìhuì.
This is a taboo among the local people.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 忌讳
写文章最 忌讳 空话连篇。
Xiě wénzhāng zuì jìhuì kōnghuà liánpiān.
The worst thing in writing is page after page of empty words.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 忌讳
他无意中触犯了对方的 忌讳 。
Tā wúyì zhōng chùfàn le duìfāng de jìhuì.
He unintentionally offended against the other side's taboo.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 触犯
学外语最 忌讳 的就是半途而废。
Xué wàiyǔ zuì jìhuì de jiù shì bàn tú ér fèi.
The worst thing in learning a foreign language is giving up halfway.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 半途而废
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Questions about 忌讳
How is 忌讳 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 忌讳 (jìhuì, "Taboo, to avoid as taboo, to abstain from †"), 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 忌讳 an HSK word?
Yes — 忌讳 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 忌讳?
The dictionary page for 忌讳 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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