算是 in English

Character breakdown

• 算 suàn to regard as
• 是昰 shì to be (followed by substantives only)

Stroke order

How it used to be written

算

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Clerical script
• See all 4 forms

是

• Bronze script 西周中期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 20 forms

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

Examples

• 从严格的科学观点来看，歷史不能算是一门科学。

  From a strictly scientific point of view, history cannot be called a science.

• 以初学者来说，你打网球已经算是打得不错了。

  You are a good tennis player, as beginners go.

• 蜡烛没有了芯，就不能算是蜡烛了。

  A candle without a wick is no candle at all.

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