谦虚

谦虚 qiānxū in a sentence

Modest

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 3 sentences

谦虚 (qiānxū) means Modest. 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.

Dictionary examples

谦虚 使人进步。

Qiānxū shǐ rén jìnbù.

Modesty helps a person improve.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 谦虚

他很 谦虚 ,从不炫耀。

Tā hěn qiānxū, cóng bù xuànyào.

He is modest and never shows off.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 谦虚

他以 谦虚 的姿态接受了批评。

Tā yǐ qiānxū de zītài jiēshòu le pīpíng.

He accepted the criticism in a modest spirit.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 姿态

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How is 谦虚 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 谦虚 (qiānxū, "Modest"), 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 谦虚 an HSK word?

Yes — 谦虚 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 谦虚 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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