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.
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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毫无疑问,我们正在调查一桩命案。
Make no mistake, we're looking at a homicide case.
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汤姆出了桩事故。
Tom had a bad accident.
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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.
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那桩杀人案是这样发生的。
The murder case happened in this way.