演员 (yǎnyuán) means Actor (actress - performer). Below are 5 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
她是一名年轻的 演员 。
Tā shì yì míng niánqīng de yǎnyuán.
She is a young actress.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 演员
这个 演员 在国内很有名。
Zhège yǎnyuán zài guónèi hěn yǒumíng.
This actor is very famous at home.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 演员
演员 们正在后台化妆。
Yǎnyuánmen zhèngzài hòutái huà zhuāng.
The actors are putting on their make-up backstage.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 化妆
演员 们正在排练明天的节目。
Yǎnyuánmen zhèngzài páiliàn míngtiān de jiémù.
The performers are rehearsing tomorrow's programme.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 排练
演出结束后 演员 们向观众鞠躬。
Yǎnchū jiéshù hòu yǎnyuánmen xiàng guānzhòng jūgōng.
After the performance the actors bowed to the audience.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 鞠躬
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How is 演员 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 演员 (yǎnyuán, "Actor (actress - performer)"), 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 演员 an HSK word?
Yes — 演员 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
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