绳繩 in English

Measure word

• 根 gēn root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; CL:條|条[tiao2]; radical (chemistry) attested

How it used to be written

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

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 9 forms

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

Examples

• 他抓住了绳子。

  He caught hold of the rope.

• 冲绳的最低时薪是每小时642日元。

  The minimum wage in Okinawa is 642 yen per hour.

• 她用绳子把包裹紧紧绑好了。

  She tied up the parcel with string.

• 我叫她不要松开绳子，但是她做了。

  I told her not to let go of the rope, but she did.

• 绳子不够牢固，撑不住他。

  The rope wasn't strong enough to support him.

• 绳子在哪里？

  Where's the rope?

• 那个溺水的男人抓紧了绳子。

  The drowning man grasped at the rope.

All example sentences with 绳