江

江 jiāng in a sentence

River

Full dictionary entry 4 sentences

江 (jiāng) means River. 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

高楼耸立在 江 边。

Gāolóu sǒnglì zài jiāng biān.

Tall buildings tower beside the river.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 耸

夕阳照在 江 面上。

Xīyáng zhào zài jiāngmiàn shang.

The setting sun shone on the surface of the river.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 夕阳

长 江 是中国最长的河。

Chángjiāng shì Zhōngguó zuì cháng de hé.

The Yangtze is the longest river in China.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 长江

我们坐船游览了长 江 。

Wǒmen zuò chuán yóulǎn le Chángjiāng.

We toured the Yangtze River by boat.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 长江

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Words that contain 江

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Questions about 江

How is 江 used in a sentence?

This page shows 4 sentences using 江 (jiāng, "River"), 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.

Why do some sentences show 江 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 江 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Where can I see the full entry for 江?

The dictionary page for 江 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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