马虎

马虎 mǎhu in a sentence

careless; sloppy; casual

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 2 sentences

马虎 (mǎhu) means careless, sloppy, casual. Below are 2 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

他做事有点儿 马虎

Tā zuò shì yǒudiǎnr mǎhu.

He is a bit sloppy in what he does.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 马虎

考试的时候不能 马虎

Kǎoshì de shíhou bù néng mǎhu.

You cannot be careless during an exam.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 马虎

Questions about 马虎

How is 马虎 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 马虎 (mǎhu, "careless, sloppy, casual"), 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 马虎 an HSK word?

Yes — 马虎 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

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The dictionary page for 马虎 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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