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Example Sentences

Real-world example sentences demonstrating how is used in context
1
míng
tiān
jiù
yào
fǎn
huí
běi
jīng
le

He will return to Beijing tomorrow.

2
mǎi
le
wǎng
fǎn
piào
shàng
hǎi

I bought a round-trip ticket to Shanghai.

3
zhè
ge
chǎn
pǐn
yào
fǎn
gōng
xiū

This product needs to be reworked and repaired.

4
měi
tiān
wǎng
fǎn
xué
xiào
jiā

I go back and forth between school and home every day.

5
jīng
cháng
wǎng
fǎn
běi
jīng
shàng
hǎi
zhī
jiān
chū
chāi

He often travels back and forth between Beijing and Shanghai for business trips.

6
yóu
gōng
zuò
yào
měi
zhōu
dōu
yào
zài
zhè
liǎng
chéng
shì
zhī
jiān
wǎng
fǎn
hǎo

Due to work requirements, she has to commute back and forth between these two cities several times a week.

7
shū
fǎn
huán
gěi
le

He returned the book to me.

8
yín
háng
huì
àn
shí
fǎn
huán
de
cún
kuǎn

The bank will return your deposit interest on time.

9
guǒ
shāng
pǐn
yǒu
zhì
liàng
wèn
shāng
jiā
fǎn
huán
quán
huò
kuǎn

If the product has quality issues, the merchant must refund the full payment.

10
chóng
fǎn
xué
xiào

He returned to school.

Information

Traditional
Radical
Strokes7
StructureSemi-Enclosed
Frequency#1479
Zhuyinㄈㄢˇ
Components
UnicodeU+8FD4
CangjieYHE
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Cultural note

Traditional Chinese culture often connects characters and names with the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) and Yin–Yang, a system also used to describe personality tendencies.

Learn how the Five Elements describe personality