灯燈 in English

Measure word

• 盏 zhǎn a small cup; classifier for lamps 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 燈, the traditional character: 灯 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Clerical script 東漢

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

Examples

• 上床之前关灯。

  Turn off the light before you go to bed.

• 上床睡觉之前请关灯。

  Please turn off the light before you go to bed.

• 他把一盏灯挂在了天花板上。

  He hung a lamp from the ceiling.

• 你为什么把灯打开了呀？

  Why did you turn on the light?

• 你在卖这些灯吗？

  Are you selling these lamps?

• 信号灯变绿了哟。

  The light has turned green.

• 出去之前确认一下所有的灯都关了。

  Make sure to turn off all the lights before going out.

• 在第一个红绿灯左转。

  Turn left at the first light.

All example sentences with 灯