竖豎 in English

How it used to be written

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

• Bronze script 戰國晚期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 6 forms

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

Examples

• 他开始说他的秘密的时候，我们都竖起了耳朵来听。

  We were all ears when he started to tell us his secret.

• 我跟那个芬兰竖琴手怀孕了，他就是我昨晚告诉你的那个人。

  I got pregnant from the Finnish harpist that I told you about last night.

• 看到鬼的时候，我吓得汗毛直竖。

  When I saw the ghost, I was so frightened that my hair stood on end.

• 竖起你的耳朵。

  Prick up your ears.

All example sentences with 竖