liǎn in a sentence

Face (feelings)

Full dictionary entry HSK 3 5 sentences

脸 (liǎn) means Face (feelings). Below are 5 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 红了。

Tā de liǎn hóng le.

His face turned red.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 ·

早上起来要洗

Zǎoshang qǐlai yào xǐ liǎn.

You should wash your face when you get up.

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我每天早上刷牙洗

Wǒ měi tiān zǎoshang shuāyá xǐ liǎn.

Every morning I brush my teeth and wash my face.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 刷牙

From the graded readers

她的 都红了,一直在喘气。

tā de / dì liǎn dōu hóng le / liǎo / liào, yìzhí zài chuǎn qì.

Her face was red and she was breathing hard.

Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger

我走上台,看着下面那么多张 ,脑子忽然一片空白。

wǒ zǒushang tái, kànzhe xiàmian nàme duō zhāng liǎn, nǎozi hūrán yīpiàn kòngbái.

I walked on stage, looked at all those faces, and my mind went blank.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech

Questions about 脸

How is 脸 used in a sentence?

This page shows 5 sentences using 脸 (liǎn, "Face (feelings)"), 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 脸 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 脸 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 脸 an HSK word?

Yes — 脸 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 脸?

The dictionary page for 脸 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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