沿 (yán / yàn) means Along, Riverside. 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
他在 沿 海城市长大。
Tā zài yánhǎi chéngshì zhǎngdà.
He grew up in a coastal city.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 沿海
暴风雨袭击了 沿 海城市。
Bàofēngyǔ xíjī le yánhǎi chéngshì.
The storm struck the coastal cities.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 袭击
沿 海地区经济比较发达。
Yánhǎi dìqū jīngjì bǐjiào fādá.
The coastal regions are economically fairly developed.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 沿海
台风今天凌晨在 沿 海登陆。
Táifēng jīntiān língchén zài yánhǎi dēnglù.
The typhoon made landfall on the coast in the early hours today.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 登陆
台风明天将登陆 沿 海地区。
Táifēng míngtiān jiāng dēnglù yánhǎi dìqū.
The typhoon will make landfall on the coast tomorrow.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 台风
地球绕太阳 沿 椭圆轨道运行。
Dìqiú rào tàiyáng yán tuǒyuán guǐdào yùnxíng.
The earth travels round the sun in an elliptical orbit.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 椭圆
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Words that contain 沿
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Questions about 沿
How is 沿 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 沿 (yán / yàn, "Along, Riverside"), 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 沿 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 沿 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 沿?
The dictionary page for 沿 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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