Measure word
- 座 zuò seat; base; stand; (bound form) constellation; (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g... 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.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 橋, the traditional character: 桥 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 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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他们造了座桥。
They constructed a bridge.
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去年夏天,我们在桥上看焰火看得很过瘾。
We enjoyed watching the fireworks on a bridge last summer.
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在他的文章中总是有太多肤浅的桥段。
There was always too much superfluous writing in his essays.
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桥在建造中。
The bridge is under construction.
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桥对面有一间小屋。
There is a cottage beyond the bridge.
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船到桥头自然直。
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
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请问新桥饭店离这儿远不远?
Excuse me, is Xinqiao Restaurant far from here?
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过河拆桥。
Danger past, God forgotten.