教训 (jiàoxun) means Lesson. Below are 3 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
我们要记住这个 教训 。
Wǒmen yào jì zhù zhège jiàoxun.
We must remember this lesson.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 教训
这次失败给了他一个 教训 。
Zhè cì shībài gěi le tā yí ge jiàoxun.
This failure taught him a lesson.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 教训
我们要吸取这次的 教训 。
Wǒmen yào xīqǔ zhè cì de jiàoxun.
We should learn from this lesson.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 吸取
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How is 教训 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 教训 (jiàoxun, "Lesson"), 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 教训 an HSK word?
Yes — 教训 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 教训?
The dictionary page for 教训 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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