Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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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
建
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 22 forms
筑
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 3 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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一个有名的建筑师造了这个房子。
A famous architect built this house.
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一个有名的建筑师造了这栋房子。
A famous architect built this house.
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京都有很多有名的古建筑。
There are many famous historic buildings in Kyoto.
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他是一名建筑师。
He's an architect.
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山上的那栋建筑物就是我们的学校了。
The building on the hill is our school.
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我不得不戴耳塞来阻隔旁边建筑工地的所有噪音。
I have to wear earplugs to drown out all the noise from the construction site next door.
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所有人的作品，不管是文学、音乐、画作、建筑或者任何载体的，都是他自己的肖像。
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or a picture or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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汤姆是建筑师。
Tom was an architect.