围 圍
Measure word
- 家 jiā home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical... attested in use
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How it used to be written
These are the forms of 圍, the traditional character: 围 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 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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世界不是围着你转的。
The world doesn't revolve around you.
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他住在公园周围的某个地方。
He lives somewhere around the park.
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他被很多人围着，自然变得有点紧张。
With so many people around he naturally became a bit nervous.
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周围环境怎么样？静不静？夜晚闹不闹？
How's the neighborhood? Quiet? Noisy at night?
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她太矮了，看不到围墙外面。
She was too short to see over the fence.
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学生不得在校园范围內吸烟。
Students are forbidden to smoke on the school grounds.
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很快人群就在他周围聚集了起来。
A crowd soon gathered around him.