玉米

玉米 yùmǐ in a sentence

Corn (maize)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 2 sentences

玉米 (yùmǐ) means Corn (maize). Below are 2 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

他煮了一个 玉米 。

Tā zhǔ le yí ge yùmǐ.

He boiled an ear of corn.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 玉米

这片地种的是 玉米 。

Zhè piàn dì zhòng de shì yùmǐ.

This field is planted with maize.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 玉米

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How is 玉米 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 玉米 (yùmǐ, "Corn (maize)"), 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 玉米 an HSK word?

Yes — 玉米 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

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