忽然 (hūrán) means Suddenly. Below are 12 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 忽然 想起了一件事。
Tā hūrán xiǎng qǐ le yí jiàn shì.
He suddenly remembered something.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 忽然
某天他 忽然 出现了。
Mǒu tiān tā hūrán chūxiàn le.
One day he suddenly appeared.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 某
那一刹那，他 忽然 明白了一切。
Nà yí chànà, tā hūrán míngbai le yíqiè.
In that split second he suddenly understood everything.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 刹那
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From the graded readers
那一刻，我的眼睛 忽然 湿了。
nà / nèi yīkè, wǒ de(possessive) yǎnjīng hūrán shī le / liǎo / liào.
In that moment my eyes suddenly stung.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Going Back Home
忽然 ，灯亮了，我的朋友们都在！
hūrán, dēng liàng le / liǎo / liào, wǒ de(possessive) péngyou men dōu zài!
Suddenly the lights came on and all my friends were there!
Graded reader · HSK 2 · An Anniversary Surprise
我 忽然 明白，时间带走的不只是样子。
wǒ hūrán míngbai, shíjiān dàizǒu de / dì bùzhǐ shì yàngzi.
I suddenly understood that what time takes away isn't only how you look.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
我们站在那里， 忽然 都不知道说什么好。
wǒmen zhàn zài nàli, hūrán dōu bùzhī dào shuō shénme hǎo / hào.
We stood there and suddenly neither of us knew what to say.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Saying Goodbye
有一天早上，我起床的时候 忽然 觉得头很晕。
yǒu yī tiān zǎoshang, wǒ qǐchuáng de / dì shíhou hūrán juéde tóu hěn yūn / yùn.
One morning I got up and suddenly felt very dizzy.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure
我走上台，看着下面那么多张脸，脑子 忽然 一片空白。
wǒ zǒushang tái, kànzhe xiàmian nàme duō zhāng liǎn, nǎozi hūrán yīpiàn kòngbái.
I walked on stage, looked at all those faces, and my mind went blank.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
那一刻我 忽然 明白：不懂得拒绝的人，时间是不值钱的。
nà / nèi yīkè wǒ hūrán míngbai: bù dǒngde jùjué de / dì rén, shíjiān shì bùzhí qián de / dì.
In that moment I understood: for someone who can't refuse, their time is worth nothing.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
Questions about 忽然
How is 忽然 used in a sentence?
This page shows 12 sentences using 忽然 (hūrán, "Suddenly"), 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 忽然 an HSK word?
Yes — 忽然 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 忽然?
The dictionary page for 忽然 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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