How it used to be written
These are the forms of 谿, the traditional character: 溪 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 8 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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他坐在溪流旁邊。
He sat next to the stream.
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他家后面有小溪，清可见底。
Behind his house is a stream so clear that you can see the bottom of it.
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他抛弃了家人，移居大溪地。
He abandoned his family and moved to Tahiti.
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大地直到四月底才得以从冬季冰冷的握持中挣脱出来。天渐暖了，雪和冰也都融化成溪了。
It was not until the end of April that winter began to release the land from its icy grip. The days became warmer; snow and ice turned into streams of meltwater.
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水从喷泉中涌出，在溪流中向下流，在溪涧中奔走，在池塘中安定，在河流中顺势流，在漩涡中回旋，并形成沼泽。
Water springs out of a fountain, flows downwards in a brook, runs in a beck, stands in a pond, glides in the stream, is whirled about in a whirlpool and causes fens.
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溪水流進這個池塘裡。
The stream flows into the pond.
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溪流潺潺，催我入眠。
The murmur of the brook lulls me to sleep.