确定 (quèdìng) means Definite (determine - be sure). Below are 7 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
地图上用经纬 确定 位置。
Dìtú shang yòng jīngwěi quèdìng wèizhì.
Position is fixed on a map by longitude and latitude.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 经纬
轮船靠卫星导航 确定 位置。
Lúnchuán kào wèixīng dǎoháng quèdìng wèizhì.
Ships determine their position by satellite navigation.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 导航
在森林里最好先 确定 方位。
Zài sēnlín lǐ zuì hǎo xiān quèdìng fāngwèi.
In a forest it is best to work out your bearings first.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 方位
公司 确定 了今年的发展方针。
Gōngsī quèdìng le jīnnián de fāzhǎn fāngzhēn.
The company has settled its development policy for this year.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 方针
这项工程通过招标 确定 了施工方。
Zhè xiàng gōngchéng tōngguò zhāobiāo quèdìng le shīgōng fāng.
The contractor for this project was decided by tender.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 招标
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How is 确定 used in a sentence?
This page shows 7 sentences using 确定 (quèdìng, "Definite (determine - be sure)"), 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 确定 an HSK word?
Yes — 确定 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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The dictionary page for 确定 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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