饰

饰 shì in a sentence

Adorn (ornaments - play)

Full dictionary entry 6 sentences

饰 (shì) means Adorn (ornaments - play). Below are 6 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

她很少戴首 饰 。

Tā hěn shǎo dài shǒushì.

She rarely wears jewellery.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 首饰

房间装 饰 得很漂亮。

Fángjiān zhuāngshì de hěn piàoliang.

The room is beautifully decorated.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 装饰

这些花是用来装 饰 的。

Zhèxiē huā shì yòng lái zhuāngshì de.

These flowers are for decoration.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 装饰

这些首 饰 是奶奶留下的。

Zhèxiē shǒushì shì nǎinai liúxià de.

This jewellery was left by her grandmother.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 首饰

他掩 饰 不住脸上的失望。

Tā yǎnshì bu zhù liǎn shang de shīwàng.

He could not hide the disappointment on his face.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 掩饰

错了就承认,不必掩 饰 。

Cuò le jiù chéngrèn, búbì yǎnshì.

Admit a mistake; there is no need to gloss over it.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 掩饰

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How is 饰 used in a sentence?

This page shows 6 sentences using 饰 (shì, "Adorn (ornaments - play)"), 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 饰 inside a longer word?

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

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The dictionary page for 饰 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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