孩子 in English

Measure word

• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
• 把 bǎ to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle... attested in use

Character breakdown

• 孩 hái (bound form) child
• 子 zǐ son

Stroke order

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How it used to be written

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 西晉
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 不要像一个孩子一样哭泣了。

  There's no need to cry like a child.

• 不要哭得像个孩子似的。

  Don't cry like a child!

• 两个孩子的年龄加起来和他们的父亲相当。

  The ages of the two children put together was equivalent to that of their father.

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