in English

qiáo noun HSK4
bridge / CL:座[zuo4]

Measure word

  • zuò seat; base; stand; (bound form) constellation; (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g... attested

Stroke order

Le caractère 桥 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
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Le caractère 橋 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

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

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 橋, the traditional character: 桥 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

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

Examples

  • 他们造了座桥。

    They constructed a bridge.

  • 去年夏天,我们在桥上看焰火看得很过瘾。

    We enjoyed watching the fireworks on a bridge last summer.

  • 在他的文章中总是有太多肤浅的桥段。

    There was always too much superfluous writing in his essays.

  • 桥在建造中。

    The bridge is under construction.

  • 桥对面有一间小屋。

    There is a cottage beyond the bridge.

  • 船到桥头自然直。

    We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

  • 请问新桥饭店离这儿远不远?

    Excuse me, is Xinqiao Restaurant far from here?

  • 过河拆桥。

    Danger past, God forgotten.

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