劲 勁
劲勁 in English
- strength / energy / enthusiasm / spirit / mood / expression / interest / CL:把[ba3] / Taiwan pr. [jing4]
Measure word
- 把 bǎ to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle... attested
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 勁, the traditional character: 劲 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 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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洗衣机有些不对劲。
Something is wrong with the washing machine.
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那些自认为讨厌电脑的人就是这么回事。他们真正讨厌的是差劲的程序员。
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.