in English

zhuāng noun, measure word
stump / stake / pile / classifier for events, cases, transactions, affairs etc

How it used to be written

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

  • Small seal script: 樁 Small seal script

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

Examples

  • 毫无疑问,我们正在调查一桩命案。

    Make no mistake, we're looking at a homicide case.

  • 汤姆出了桩事故。

    Tom had a bad accident.

  • 私家侦探们受雇调查这桩奇怪的案件。

    Private detectives were hired to look into the strange case.

  • 那桩杀人案是这样发生的。

    The murder case happened in this way.

All example sentences with 桩

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