昔日

昔日 xīrì in a sentence

In olden days (former times)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

昔日 (xīrì) means In olden days (former times). Below are 2 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

他常常想起 昔日 的同学。

Tā chángcháng xiǎngqǐ xīrì de tóngxué.

He often thinks of his classmates of former days.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 昔日

昔日 的小村庄如今变成了城市。

Xīrì de xiǎo cūnzhuāng rújīn biànchéng le chéngshì.

The little village of former days has now become a city.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 昔日

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How is 昔日 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 昔日 (xīrì, "In olden days (former times)"), 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 昔日 an HSK word?

Yes — 昔日 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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