鼓掌

鼓掌 gǔzhǎng in a sentence

Applause

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 4 sentences

鼓掌 (gǔzhǎng) means Applause. 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

请为他 鼓掌 。

Qǐng wèi tā gǔ zhǎng.

Please give him a round of applause.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 鼓掌

演出结束后大家 鼓掌 。

Yǎnchū jiéshù hòu dàjiā gǔ zhǎng.

Everyone applauded after the performance ended.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 鼓掌

观众都站起来 鼓掌 。

Guānzhòng dōu zhàn qǐlái gǔzhǎng.

The audience all stood up and applauded.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 观众

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From the graded readers

大家 鼓掌 了。

dàjiā gǔzhǎng le / liǎo / liào.

The audience applauded.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech

Questions about 鼓掌

How is 鼓掌 used in a sentence?

This page shows 4 sentences using 鼓掌 (gǔzhǎng, "Applause"), 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 鼓掌 an HSK word?

Yes — 鼓掌 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 鼓掌 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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