闪电 (shǎndiàn) means Lightning. 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
外面有 闪电 和雷声。
Wàimiàn yǒu shǎndiàn hé léi shēng.
There is lightning and thunder outside.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 闪电
闪电 过后就下起了雨。
Shǎndiàn guò hòu jiù xià qǐ le yǔ.
After the lightning it began to rain.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 闪电
闪电 劈开了那棵老树。
Shǎndiàn pī kāi le nà kē lǎo shù.
Lightning split that old tree.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 劈
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Questions about 闪电
How is 闪电 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 闪电 (shǎndiàn, "Lightning"), 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 闪电 an HSK word?
Yes — 闪电 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 闪电?
The dictionary page for 闪电 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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