肩 (jiān) means Shoulder. Below are 6 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
背包压得 肩 膀疼。
Bèibāo yā de jiānbǎng téng.
The backpack made my shoulders ache.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 肩膀
他拍了拍我的 肩 膀。
Tā pāi le pāi wǒ de jiānbǎng.
He patted me on the shoulder.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 肩膀
他耸了耸 肩 ，表示不知道。
Tā sǒng le sǒng jiān, biǎoshì bù zhīdào.
He shrugged to show he did not know.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 耸
他和蔼地拍了拍孩子的 肩 膀。
Tā hé'ǎi de pāi le pāi háizi de jiānbǎng.
He patted the child's shoulder kindly.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 和蔼
他搂着朋友的 肩 膀笑了起来。
Tā lǒuzhe péngyou de jiānbǎng xiào le qǐlái.
He put an arm round his friend's shoulder and laughed.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 搂
他每周去做一次按摩，缓解 肩 膀的疼痛。
Tā měi zhōu qù zuò yí cì ànmó, huǎnjiě jiānbǎng de téngtòng.
He gets a massage once a week to ease the pain in his shoulders.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 按摩
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Words that contain 肩
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Questions about 肩
How is 肩 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 肩 (jiān, "Shoulder"), 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.
Why do some sentences show 肩 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 肩 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 肩?
The dictionary page for 肩 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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