紧张 (jǐnzhāng) means Tension (nervous - intense). Below are 3 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.
From the graded readers
到了那里以后，我还是很 紧张 。
dàole nàli yǐhòu, wǒ háishì hěn jǐnzhāng.
Even so, I was nervous when I got there.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
重要的是我知道了： 紧张 不可怕，可怕的是因为 紧张 就不上台。
zhòngyào de / dì shì wǒ zhīdào le / liǎo / liào: jǐnzhāng bùkě pà, kěpà de / dì shì yīnwèi jǐnzhāng jiù bù shàngtái.
What mattered was learning that nerves aren't the problem — not going on stage because of them is.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
然后我做了一件我自己都没想到的事：我笑着说，“对不起，我太 紧张 了，我们重新开始。”
ránhòu wǒ zuòle yíjiàn wǒ zìjǐ dōu méi xiǎngdào de / dì shì: wǒ xiào zhāo / zhaó / zhe / zhù / zhuó shuō," duìbuqǐ, wǒ tài jǐnzhāng le / liǎo / liào, wǒmen chóngxīn kāishǐ."
Then I did something I hadn't expected of myself: I smiled and said, "Sorry, I'm too nervous — let's start again."
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
Questions about 紧张
How is 紧张 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 紧张 (jǐnzhāng, "Tension (nervous - intense)"), 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 紧张 an HSK word?
Yes — 紧张 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 紧张?
The dictionary page for 紧张 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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