湖 in English

Measure word

• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested
• 片 piàn disk; sheet attested

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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

• Bronze script 西周晚期
• Clerical script 西晉
• See all 3 forms

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

Examples

• 你有没有想过，鱼类是如何在寒冷的冬季生存的，或者当湖泊和池塘结冰时它们会去哪里？

  Have you ever wondered how fish survive in cold winter weather, or where they go when lakes and ponds freeze over?

• 俄罗斯的贝加尔湖是世界上最深的湖泊。

  Lake Baikal in Russia is the deepest lake in the world.

• 在俄罗斯的贝加尔湖是世界上最深的湖泊。

  Lake Baikal in Russia, is the deepest lake in the world.

• 巨大的柱子遮住了视线，让人看不到湖。

  A large pillar obstructs the view of the lake.

• 我不知道这个湖有多深。

  I don't know how deep the lake is.

• 我们在湖里游了泳。

  We swam in the lake.

• 我们沿着湖岸散步。

  We walked along the shore of the lake.

• 据我所知，这里是整个湖最深的地方。

  To the best of my knowledge, the lake is the deepest here.

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