才纔 in English

Measure word

• 点 diǎn point; dot; drop; speck; o'clock; point (in space or time); to draw a dot; to check on a list; to choose; to order... attested in use
• 刻 kè quarter (hour); moment; to carve; to engrave; to cut; oppressive; classifier for short time intervals attested in use

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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 曹魏
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 一百年才出一个周立波。

  A person like Zhou Libo is only born once every hundred years.

• 不，我不是！你才是！

  No I'm not; you are!

• 不知道他什么时候才回来。

  I don't know when he'll come back.

• 不願意聆聽的人，才是真正的聾子。

  There's no one more deaf than he who does not want to listen.

• 中小企业要勒紧裤带才能存活。

  Small businesses will have to tighten their belts to survive.

• 从这里坐车，要花两个小时才能到我叔叔家。

  It's a two-hour drive from here to my uncle's house.

• 他们好不容易才回答了他们老师的问题。

  They answered their teacher's question with difficulty.

• 他刚刚才吃完午饭，不可能会肚子饿。

  He cannot be hungry; he has just had lunch.

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