使

HSK 4#400 by frequencyradical 亻

shǐ["v"]

to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger

Examples

新闻使她不安。

The news distressed her.

骄傲使人落后。

Pride goes before a fall.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.