Measure word
- 所 suǒ actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative... attested
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
机
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 4 forms
构
These are the forms of 構, the traditional character: 构 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - 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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世卫组织负责人于周一表示，他将“在条件合适的情况下尽快”发起对本机构针对新冠疫情应对情况的独立调查。
The head of the World Health Organization said Monday he will begin an independent evaluation of the U.N. health agency’s response to the coronavirus pandemic “at the earliest appropriate moment.”
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几乎没有哪个地区分析人士怀疑，他现在会利用这次失败的政变来加强自己的总统权力，并清洗不仅是军队，还有窝藏反对派的可疑机构。
Few regional analysts doubt that he will now use the failed coup to strengthen his presidential powers and to cleanse not only the military but other institutions suspected of harboring opponents.
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如果所有私人资讯都要经过秘密机构的搜查，那还能算是民主吗？
If everything private is searched through by secret services, is that democracy?
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我一得到一大笔钱就捐一部分给慈善机构。
Whenever I get a large sum of money, I donate some of it to charity.
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汤姆捐一半他的薪水给他最喜欢的慈善机构。
Tom donates half his salary to his favorite charity.