预防 yùfáng in a sentence
Prevent (guard against - to protect)
预防 (yùfáng) means Prevent (guard against - to protect). Below are 4 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
洗手可以 预防 感冒。
Xǐ shǒu kěyǐ yùfáng gǎnmào.
Washing your hands helps prevent colds.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 预防
预防 比治疗更重要。
Yùfáng bǐ zhìliáo gèng zhòngyào.
Prevention matters more than cure.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 预防
我们要 预防 自然灾害。
Wǒmen yào yùfáng zìrán zāihài.
We must guard against natural disasters.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 灾害
锻炼可以 预防 很多疾病。
Duànliàn kěyǐ yùfáng hěn duō jíbìng.
Exercise can prevent many diseases.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 疾病
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Questions about 预防
How is 预防 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 预防 (yùfáng, "Prevent (guard against - to protect)"), 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 预防 an HSK word?
Yes — 预防 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 预防 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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