残 殘
残殘 in English
- to destroy / to spoil / to ruin / to injure / cruel / oppressive / savage / brutal / incomplete / disabled / to remain / to survive / remnant / surplus
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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
These are the forms of 殘, the traditional character: 残 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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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
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他跟她说这样的话真是太残忍了。
It is cruel of him to say such things to her.
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同类不相残。
A dog does not eat a dog.
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对动物来说这不是什么残酷的事情。
When it comes to animals, this can't be considered as being something cruel.
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怪物的笑容很残忍。
The monster's smile was cruel.
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我从来没想到他能做到那么残忍的事。
I never thought he was capable of doing something so cruel.