短促

短促 duǎncù in a sentence

Short (brief)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

短促 (duǎncù) means Short (brief). 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

他的呼吸变得 短促 起来。

Tā de hūxī biàn de duǎncù qǐlái.

His breathing became short and rapid.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 短促

夏天的夜晚显得格外 短促 。

Xiàtiān de yèwǎn xiǎnde géwài duǎncù.

Summer nights seem particularly fleeting.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 短促

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How is 短促 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 短促 (duǎncù, "Short (brief)"), 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 短促 an HSK word?

Yes — 短促 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 短促 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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