Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested
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
保
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 24 forms
证
These are the forms of 證, the traditional character: 证 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 3 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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他保证过会来却没有来。
He promised to come, but he didn't come.
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团结、公正和自由是幸福的保证。
Unity, justice and freedom are the pledge of fortune.
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我保证在一个星期內把这盘录影带还给你。
I promise to return this videotape within a week.
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我向你保证。
I give you my word.