闭 (bì) means Shuts (to close). Below are 8 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
商店晚上十点关 闭 。
Shāngdiàn wǎnshang shí diǎn guānbì.
The shop closes at ten in the evening.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 关闭
那家书店去年倒 闭 了。
Nà jiā shūdiàn qùnián dǎobì le.
That bookshop went out of business last year.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 倒闭
这条路因施工暂时封 闭 。
Zhè tiáo lù yīn shīgōng zànshí fēngbì.
This road is temporarily closed for construction.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 封闭
经营不善使这家工厂濒临倒 闭 。
Jīngyíng bú shàn shǐ zhè jiā gōngchǎng bīnlín dǎobì.
Poor management has brought this factory to the brink of closure.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 倒闭
长期封 闭 的环境不利于思想开阔。
Chángqī fēngbì de huánjìng búlì yú sīxiǎng kāikuò.
A long-closed environment does not help broaden the mind.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 封闭
长期不读书会让人的思想变得 闭 塞。
Chángqī bù dúshū huì ràng rén de sīxiǎng biàn de bìsè.
Going a long time without reading makes a person's thinking narrow.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 闭塞
这个山村交通 闭 塞，消息很难传进来。
Zhège shāncūn jiāotōng bìsè, xiāoxi hěn nán chuán jìnlái.
This mountain village is cut off and news barely reaches it.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 闭塞
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Words that contain 闭
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Questions about 闭
How is 闭 used in a sentence?
This page shows 8 sentences using 闭 (bì, "Shuts (to close)"), 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 闭 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 闭 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 闭?
The dictionary page for 闭 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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