Measure word
- 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
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation 
Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
之
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
后
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 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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四月之后是五月。
May comes after April.
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地震之后发生了火灾。
A fire broke out after the earthquake.
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失业之后他捱过了一段非常艰苦的日子。
After losing his job, he went through a very difficult time.
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我们在午夜之后起床。
We got up after midnight.
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我妹妹出事之后，我爸爸和我照顾她直到康复。
My father and I nursed my sister back to health after her accident.
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犹豫了片刻之后，他把书放在了桌子上。
After some hesitation, he laid the book on the desk.
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甚至在日落之后，气温也不见降低。
Even after sunset there was little moderation in the temperature.
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直到我游览了澳大利亚之后，我才意识到日本是多么小。
It wasn't until after visiting Australia that I realized Japan was so small.