本能 (běnnéng) means Instinct. 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
保护孩子是每一位母亲的 本能 。
Bǎohù háizi shì měi yí wèi mǔqīn de běnnéng.
Protecting her child is every mother's instinct.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 本能
听到响声，他 本能 地回头看了一眼。
Tīngdào xiǎngshēng, tā běnnéng de huítóu kàn le yì yǎn.
Hearing the noise, he instinctively looked back.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 本能
他贪婪地读着每一 本能 找到的书。
Tā tānlán de dúzhe měi yì běn néng zhǎodào de shū.
He devoured every book he could find.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 贪婪
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How is 本能 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 本能 (běnnéng, "Instinct"), 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 本能 an HSK word?
Yes — 本能 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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