How it used to be written
These are the forms of 塵, the traditional character: 尘 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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一团尘土与瓦砾腾空而起，在空中盘旋了数分钟。
A cloud of dust and debris rose and lingered in the sky for a few minutes afterward.
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主妇给地毯吸了尘。
The homemaker vacuumed the carpet.
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你可能对花粉或灰尘过敏。
Probably you are allergic to pollen or dust.
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她觉得浑身不自在，尽管这个奇怪孩子的身体可能坐在桌子旁，但她的精神却在风尘云雾中遥不可及，高高地于想象力的翅膀上漂浮。
She had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd child's body might be there at the table her spirit was far away in some remote airy cloudland, borne aloft on the wings of imagination.
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孩子们在尘土里游戏。
The children were playing in the dirt.
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宇航服保护宇航员们不会因和微小宇宙尘埃碰撞而受伤。
Spacesuits protect astronauts from being injured from impacts of small bits of space dust.
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当30年代的沙尘暴和大萧条使人们感到绝望时，她看到一个国家用新政、新的就业机会以及对新目标的共同追求战胜恐慌。是的，我们能做到。
When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes, we can.
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我免费得到了这个吸尘器。
I got this vacuum cleaner for nothing.