当机 當機
当机當機 in English
- to crash (of a computer) / to stop working / (loanword from English "down")
Stroke order
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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
当
These are the forms of 當, the traditional character: 当 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 9 forms
机
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 4 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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唉！我的电脑又当机了。
Argh! My computer froze up again.
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游戏当机。
The game froze.