Measure word
- 点 diǎn point; dot; drop; speck; o'clock; point (in space or time); to draw a dot; to check on a list; to choose; to order... attested in use
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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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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23点我打电话给她的时候,她已经去睡觉了。
She had already gone to bed when I phoned her at 11:00 p.m.
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Kalman 睡在床上。
Kalman slept in a bed.
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一个醉了的男人在长椅上睡觉。
A drunken man was sleeping on the bench.
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上床睡觉之前请关灯。
Please turn off the light before you go to bed.
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不要太晚去睡觉。
Don't stay up too late.
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不要弄醒睡觉的猫。
Don't wake a sleeping cat.
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两点怎么还不睡觉,你这个夜猫子!
You stay up until two in the morning. You're such a night owl!