结构結構 in English

Measure word

• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested
• 座 zuò seat; base; stand; (bound form) constellation; (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g... attested

Character breakdown

• 结結 jié knot
• 构構 gòu to construct

Stroke order

How it used to be written

结

These are the forms of 結, the traditional character: 结 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Warring States script 戰國.齊
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 11 forms

构

These are the forms of 構, the traditional character: 构 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

• 中国的汉字数量繁多，推行汉字简化的目的，是把结构复杂的繁体字转换成易学易记的简体字，从而提高国民的识字水平。

  In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.

• 它好像是非结构性的。

  It seems to be unstructured.

• 我喜欢把东西拆开，看看里面的结构。

  I like to take things apart to see what makes them tick.

• 机器结构很复杂，我们找来找去也找不到故障的原因。

  The machine was too complicated for us to find out the cause of the trouble.

• 红树林吸取二氧化碳比地球上其他树木都要多，因为它们具有很大的地下根部结构。

  Mangroves sequester more carbon than any other trees on Earth because they have quite a large underground root structure.

• 经理打算改良公司的结构。

  The manager wants to improve the company's structuring.

All example sentences with 结构