念 (niàn) means Read (study - think - idea). Below are 24 of the 39 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
请把这段 念 一遍。
Qǐng bǎ zhè duàn niàn yí biàn.
Please read this passage out once.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 念
他一直 念 着老家的人。
Tā yìzhí niàn zhe lǎojiā de rén.
He keeps thinking of the people back home.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 念
这个概 念 不太好懂。
Zhège gàiniàn bú tài hǎo dǒng.
This concept is not easy to understand.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 概念
年轻人的观 念 变了。
Niánqīng rén de guānniàn biàn le.
Young people's ideas have changed.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 观念
他的时间观 念 很强。
Tā de shíjiān guānniàn hěn qiáng.
He has a strong sense of time.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 观念
我怀 念 大学的日子。
Wǒ huáiniàn dàxué de rìzi.
I look back fondly on my university days.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 怀念
他很想 念 家里的人。
Tā hěn xiǎngniàn jiā lǐ de rén.
He misses his family very much.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 想念
那段时光让人怀 念 。
Nà duàn shíguāng ràng rén huáiniàn.
Those days are worth remembering fondly.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 时光
这部电影充满悬 念 。
Zhè bù diànyǐng chōngmǎn xuánniàn.
This film is full of suspense.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 悬念
我对这方面没有概 念 。
Wǒ duì zhè fāngmiàn méiyǒu gàiniàn.
I have no idea about this area.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 概念
他很怀 念 家乡的味道。
Tā hěn huáiniàn jiāxiāng de wèidào.
He misses the flavours of his hometown.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 怀念
他很想 念 自己的家乡。
Tā hěn xiǎngniàn zìjǐ de jiāxiāng.
He misses his hometown.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 家乡
他很思 念 远方的家人。
Tā hěn sīniàn yuǎnfāng de jiārén.
He misses his family far away.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 思念
这个 念 头一直缠绕着他。
Zhège niàntou yìzhí chánràozhe tā.
This thought kept coiling around his mind.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 缠绕
银行发行了一套纪 念 币。
Yínháng fāxíng le yí tào jìniànbì.
The bank issued a set of commemorative coins.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 发行
这两个概 念 很容易混淆。
Zhè liǎng ge gàiniàn hěn róngyì hùnxiáo.
These two concepts are easily confused.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 混淆
旧的观 念 正在慢慢解体。
Jiù de guānniàn zhèngzài mànmàn jiětǐ.
The old ideas are slowly breaking down.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 解体
旧观 念 束缚了他的想法。
Jiù guānniàn shùfù le tā de xiǎngfǎ.
Old ideas constrained his thinking.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 束缚
作者故意留了一个悬 念 。
Zuòzhě gùyì liú le yí ge xuánniàn.
The author deliberately left a cliffhanger.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 悬念
信 念 支撑他走到了今天。
Xìnniàn zhīchēng tā zǒu dào le jīntiān.
Conviction has sustained him to this day.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 支撑
Reading these is one thing; producing 念 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
From the graded readers
上个星期五是我们的结婚纪 念 日。
shànggexīngqī wǔ shì wǒmende jiéhūn jìniànrì.
Last Friday was our wedding anniversary.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · An Anniversary Surprise
到了公司，同事们也没有跟我说纪 念 日快乐。
dàole gōngsī, tóngshì men yě méiyǒu gēn wǒ shuō jìniànrì kuàilè.
At the office, none of my colleagues said happy anniversary either.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · An Anniversary Surprise
念 appears in 39 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 念
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 念
How is 念 used in a sentence?
This page shows 39 sentences using 念 (niàn, "Read (study - think - idea)"), 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 念 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 念 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 念 an HSK word?
Yes — 念 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 念?
The dictionary page for 念 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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