手绢手絹

手绢手絹 in English

shǒu juàn: handkerchief / CL:張|张[zhang1],塊|块[kuai4]

Measure word

块 kuài lump (of earth); chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and... attested
张 zhāng to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes attested

Character breakdown

手 shǒu hand
绢絹 juàn thin, tough silk fabric

Stroke order

Le caractère 手 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 手

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

手

Bronze script 西周中期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

绢

These are the forms of 絹, the traditional character: 绢 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 孫吳
See all 7 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

我在烫我的手绢。

I‘m ironing my handkerchiefs.

All example sentences with 手绢

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