曾经 (céngjīng) means Once (previously). 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
我 曾经 在北京住过两年。
Wǒ céngjīng zài Běijīng zhù guo liǎng nián.
I once lived in Beijing for two years.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 曾经
这个国家 曾经 是殖民地。
Zhège guójiā céngjīng shì zhímíndì.
This country was once a colony.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 殖民地
语言 曾经 是他们之间的屏障。
Yǔyán céngjīng shì tāmen zhījiān de píngzhàng.
Language was once a barrier between them.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 屏障
这座城市的纺织业 曾经 非常发达。
Zhè zuò chéngshì de fǎngzhī yè céngjīng fēicháng fādá.
This city's textile industry was once highly developed.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 纺织
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Questions about 曾经
How is 曾经 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 曾经 (céngjīng, "Once (previously)"), 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 曾经 an HSK word?
Yes — 曾经 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
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