炫耀

炫耀 xuànyào in a sentence

Show off

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 4 sentences

炫耀 (xuànyào) means Show off. 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

炫耀 只会让人反感。

Xuànyào zhǐ huì ràng rén fǎngǎn.

Showing off only puts people off.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 炫耀

他从不 炫耀 自己的成绩。

Tā cóng bù xuànyào zìjǐ de chéngjì.

He never shows off his achievements.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 炫耀

他很谦虚,从不 炫耀 。

Tā hěn qiānxū, cóng bù xuànyào.

He is modest and never shows off.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 谦虚

他为人谦逊,从不 炫耀 。

Tā wéirén qiānxùn, cóng bù xuànyào.

He is modest by nature and never shows off.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 谦逊

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How is 炫耀 used in a sentence?

This page shows 4 sentences using 炫耀 (xuànyào, "Show off"), 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 炫耀 an HSK word?

Yes — 炫耀 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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