毛病 máobìng in a sentence
Problem (shortcoming - illness - defect)
毛病 (máobìng) means Problem (shortcoming - illness - defect). 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
这台机器有 毛病 。
Zhè tái jīqì yǒu máobìng.
There is something wrong with this machine.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 毛病
他有迟到的 毛病 。
Tā yǒu chídào de máobìng.
He has a bad habit of being late.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 毛病
懒惰是最难改的 毛病 。
Lǎnduò shì zuì nán gǎi de máobìng.
Laziness is the hardest fault to correct.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 懒惰
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How is 毛病 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 毛病 (máobìng, "Problem (shortcoming - illness - defect)"), 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 毛病 an HSK word?
Yes — 毛病 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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