法律 in English

Measure word

• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested
• 套 tào to cover; to encase; cover; sheath; to overlap; to interleave; to model after; to copy; formula; harness; loop of rope... attested
• 条 tiáo strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) attested

Character breakdown

• 法灋 fǎ law
• 律 lǜ law

Stroke order

How it used to be written

法

• Bronze script 西周早期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 26 forms

律

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 10 forms

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

Examples

• 他触犯了法律。

  He broke the law.

• 你必须遵守法律。

  You must observe the law.

• 妳必須遵從法律。

  You must observe the law.

• 我们总要遵守法律。

  We should always obey laws.

• 法律有很多不明确的地方。

  The law is full of ambiguities.

• 法律術語是大多數普通人無法理解的。

  Legal terminology is usually incomprehensible to non-specialists.

• 法律面前人人平等。

  Everybody is equal before the law.

• 法律面前人人平等。

  Everybody is equal before the law.

All example sentences with 法律