签 籤
签籤 in English
- inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag
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 籤, the traditional character: 签 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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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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1978年中国和日本签署了和平条约。
In 1978 a peace treaty was concluded between Japan and China.
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你不需要签证。
You don't need a visa.
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你想去美国读书的话，一定要先申请一张学生签证。
If you want to study in the United States, you need to get a Student visa.
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你能在这里签名吗?
Could you sign here?
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只有得了签证才可以来中国。
You can only come to China if you’ve got a visa.
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我和这家公司签了三年合同。
This company and I have signed a contract of three years.
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我申请了签证。
I applied for a visa.
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拜托您，请给我一张签证。
PLEASE give me a visa.