笔筆 in English

Measure word

• 支 zhī to support; to sustain; to erect; to raise; branch; division; to draw money; classifier for rods such as pens and guns... attested
• 枝 zhī branch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc 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 筆, the traditional character: 笔 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Small seal script
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 3 forms

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

Examples

• “我可不可以用你的笔？” “嗯，可以。”

  "May I use your pencil?" "Yes, you may."

• John 继承了一大笔财产。

  John inherited a large fortune.

• 五千元是一大笔钱。

  5000 yuan is a lot of money.

• 他六歲的时候学会了用打字机，便和老师说他不用学执笔写字了。

  At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.

• 他把这记在他的笔记本上。

  He wrote it down in his notebook.

• 他拿起笔，写了起来。

  He took up his pen and began to write.

• 他留给他女儿一大笔财产。

  He left his daughter a great fortune.

• 他花了一大笔钱来帮助穷人。

  He spent a lot of money on helping the poor.

All example sentences with 笔