汉字

汉字 hànzì in a sentence

Chinese character

Full dictionary entry 4 sentences

汉字 (hànzì) means Chinese character. Below are 4 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

我会写 汉字 。

Wǒ huì xiě Hànzì.

I can write Chinese characters.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 写

学 汉字 不太容易。

Xué Hànzì bú tài róngyì.

Learning Chinese characters isn't very easy.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 容易

汉字 是一种古老的文字。

Hànzì shì yì zhǒng gǔlǎo de wénzì.

Chinese characters are an ancient script.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 文字

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From the graded readers

汉字 很难,我常常写错。

hànzì hěn nán, wǒ chángcháng xiě cuò.

Chinese characters are hard and I often write them wrong.

Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese

Questions about 汉字

How is 汉字 used in a sentence?

This page shows 4 sentences using 汉字 (hànzì, "Chinese character"), 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.

Where can I see the full entry for 汉字?

The dictionary page for 汉字 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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