纸紙 in English

Measure word

• 张 zhāng to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes attested
• 沓 dá again and again; many attested

Stroke order

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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 紙, the traditional character: 纸 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Qin bamboo slips 秦
• See all 3 forms

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

Examples

• 今天的报纸中有没有什么特殊消息呢？

  Is there any special news in today's paper?

• 他为一份印刷量很大的报纸工作。

  He works for a newspaper with a large circulation.

• 你的谎言像报纸一样！

  Your lies are just like newspapers!

• 在那儿看报纸的男人是我叔叔。

  The man reading a paper over there is my uncle.

• 她很快地瞟了一眼报纸。

  She glanced briefly at the newspaper.

• 当更多的纸币投入使用，价格就下跌了。

  As more paper money came into use, the value fell.

• 我丈夫一边吃早餐一边读报纸。

  My husband reads the newspaper while eating breakfast.

• 我不太看报纸。

  I don't read newspapers much.

All example sentences with 纸