戒
戒 in English
- to guard against / to exhort / to admonish or warn / to give up or stop doing sth / Buddhist monastic discipline / ring (for a finger)
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 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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Bob经常试着戒烟。
Bob often tries to give up smoking.
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他为了健康，戒烟了。
He quit smoking for the sake of his health.
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他发誓要戒烟。
He vowed to give up smoking.
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他的医生建议他戒烟。
His doctor advised him to quit smoking.
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你该戒烟。
You must quit smoking.