个箇 in English

Measure word

• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
• 点 diǎn point; dot; drop; speck; o'clock; point (in space or time); to draw a dot; to check on a list; to choose; to order... attested in use

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

• Small seal script

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

Examples

• “你去哪儿了？”“我去了火车站送我的一个朋友。”

  "Where have you been?" "I have been to the station to see a friend off."

• “你有没有兄弟姐妹？”　“没有，我是个独生子女。”

  "Do you have any siblings?" "No, I'm an only child."

• “啊！”是一个感叹词。

  "Ah!" is an interjection.

• “坦白说，我有恐高症。”“你是个胆小鬼！”

  "To tell you the truth, I am scared of heights." "You are a coward!"

• “放射性”是一个化学术语。

  'Radioactivity' is a chemistry term.

• “汤姆，我得告诉你点事。我爱某个人。他的名字以T开头以M结尾。”“呃，那能是谁？我认识吗？

  "Tom, I have to tell you something. I love someone. His name starts with T and ends with M." "Er, who would that be? Is it someone I know?"

• “迈克尔”是一个男名，但是“米歇尔”是一个女名。

  "Michael" is a man's name, but "Michelle" is a woman's name.

• “那是什么？”“是个桃子。”

  "What's that?" "This is a peach."

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