曾

HSK 5#443 by frequencyradical 曰

céng["d","nr"]

ever (in the past); once; previously; already; former; (past tense marker used before verb or clause)

Zēng

surname Zeng; great- (grandfather, grandchild etc)

Examples

我高中时曾打网球

I used to play tennis in high school.

我曾住在高圆寺。

I lived in Kouenji.

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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.