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.
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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
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 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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他似乎不知道我父亲和我之间的纠葛。
He seems not to be aware of the conflict between my father and me.
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他和她之间的友谊，渐渐地酝酿成了爱情。
By degrees the friendship between him and her grew into love.
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你的智慧广大的有如孟买和孟买之间的距离。
Your intelligence is as vast as the distance between Bombay and Mumbai.
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博物馆和这里之间距离多远 ?
How far is it from here to the museum?
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埃博拉通过体液在人与人之间传播。
Ebola spreads from person to person through bodily fluids.
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就是冷战几十年后的今天，德国人和俄罗斯人之间还有很多伤痛，尤其是在那些被苏联占领的地区。
Even now, many years after the cold war, there is still much bitterness between Germans and Russian, especially in areas which were occupied by the Soviet Union.
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希望与现实之间的矛盾，因何而起？
From what stems this contradiction between our hopes and our reality?
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很明显的是这两者之间有很强烈的分歧。
It's clear that there's a rather strong disagreement between the two.