括 (kuò) means Include (parenthesis - brackets). Below are 6 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
这次旅行包 括 机票和酒店。
Zhè cì lǚxíng bāokuò jīpiào hé jiǔdiàn.
This trip includes the flight and the hotel.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 包括
请用一句话概 括 这个故事。
Qǐng yòng yí jù huà gàikuò zhège gùshi.
Please sum up this story in one sentence.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 概括
我们班有二十人，包 括 老师。
Wǒmen bān yǒu èrshí rén, bāokuò lǎoshī.
There are twenty people in our class, including the teacher.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 包括
请用一句话概 括 这段话的大意。
Qǐng yòng yí jù huà gàikuò zhè duàn huà de dàyì.
Please sum up the gist of this passage in one sentence.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 大意
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Words that contain 括
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 括
How is 括 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 括 (kuò, "Include (parenthesis - brackets)"), 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 括 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 括 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 括?
The dictionary page for 括 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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