沟溝 in English

Measure word

• 道 dào road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]); (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization... attested

How it used to be written

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

• Small seal script
• Clerical script 西晉
• See all 7 forms

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

Examples

• 英语是一种沟通的手段。

  English is a means of communication.

All example sentences with 沟