生锈

生锈 shēngxiù in a sentence

(of metal) to rust; to become rusty; (fig.) (of a skill etc) to get rusty; to deteriorate†

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

生锈 (shēngxiù) means (of metal) to rust; to become rusty, (fig.) (of a skill etc) to get rusty; to deteriorate †. 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

潮湿的地方铁器容易 生锈 。

Cháoshī de dìfang tiěqì róngyì shēngxiù.

Ironware rusts easily in damp places.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 生锈

这把刀放久了,已经 生锈 了。

Zhè bǎ dāo fàng jiǔ le, yǐjīng shēngxiù le.

This knife has been left so long that it has rusted.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 生锈

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How is 生锈 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 生锈 (shēngxiù, "(of metal) to rust; to become rusty, (fig.) (of a skill etc) to get rusty; to deteriorate †"), 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 生锈 an HSK word?

Yes — 生锈 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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The dictionary page for 生锈 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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