使

Pinyin: shǐ

to make; to cause

Example sentence

这个消息使大家很高兴。

Zhège xiāoxi shǐ dàjiā hěn gāoxìng.

The news made everyone happy.

What 使 means

使 (shǐ) is a Chinese word meaning “to make; to cause”. It belongs to the Work, Study & Feelings topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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