明白 (míngbai) means Understand (clear). Below are 8 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
From the graded readers
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
我也终于 明白 ，能长期做下去的，才叫努力。
wǒ yě zhōngyú míngbai, néng chángqī zuò xiàqu de / dì, cái jiào nǔlì.
And I finally understood that only what you can keep doing counts as effort.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure
那一刻我 明白 了，其实我一直都可以，只是不相信自己。
nà / nèi yīkè wǒ míngbaile, qíshí wǒ yìzhí dōu kěyǐ, zhǐshì bù xiāngxìn zìjǐ.
In that moment I understood that I'd always been able to — I just hadn't believed it.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
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
From the travel phrasebook
Questions about 明白
How is 明白 used in a sentence?
This page shows 8 sentences using 明白 (míngbai, "Understand (clear)"), 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 明白 an HSK word?
Yes — 明白 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 明白?
The dictionary page for 明白 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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