单位 單位
单位單位 in English
- unit (of measure) / unit (group of people as a whole) / work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform) / CL:個|个[ge4]
Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual 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.
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
单
These are the forms of 單, the traditional character: 单 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
位
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
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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在我的单位，我是最年轻的。
I'm the youngest in my department.
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我有时候走路去上班，有时候骑自行车去上班，因为我家离单位很近。
Sometimes I walk to work, and sometimes I ride my bike, because I live very close to work.
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鱼在这里是以磅为单位来出售。
Fish is sold by the pound here.