Character breakdown
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
只
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Small seal script
是
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 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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Tatoeba: 因为语言意义不只是单字的总合。
Tatoeba: Because a language is more than the sum of its words.
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不，謝謝你。我只是四處看看。
No, thank you. I'm just looking around.
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不要太严格，他们只是小孩。
Don't be too strict. They're just kids.
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与其说她是我的朋友，不如说她只是一个我认识的人。
She is more of an acquaintance than a friend.
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也许这只是一场巧合。
Maybe it was just a coincidence.
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他从早到晚只是在抱怨。
He does nothing but complain from morning till night.
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他们和一个导游一起出发，只是为了以防迷路。
They set out with a guide just in case they lost their way.
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他只是个诗人。
He is nothing but a poet.