寄 in English

Measure word

• 张 zhāng to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes attested in use

How it used to be written

• Small seal script
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 4 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• Trang，如果我能寄给你一个棉花糖，我会这么做的。

  If I could send you a marshmallow, Trang, I would.

• 乔治给我寄了一张生日卡片。

  George sent me a birthday card.

• 今天早上我祖母寄出了这封信。

  My grandmother posted the letter this morning.

• 他反复读了好几遍她寄来的信，还是没明白她的意思。

  Over and over again, he read the letter she had mailed him, but he still did not understand it.

• 你可以寄希望于此。

  You can bank on that.

• 信一写好，他就把它寄了。

  Once he had written the letter, he sent it.

• 别忘了寄信。

  Don't forget to post the letter.

• 她去了邮局寄包裹。

  She went to the post office to send the package.

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