英 in English

Measure word

• 位 wèi position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2... attested in use
• 本 běn (bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this; (bound form) this; the current... attested in use

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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

• Bronze script 春秋
• Clerical script 東漢
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• David Beckham是英国人。

  David Beckham is English.

• 一英里大约是1600米。

  A mile is equal to about 1,600 meters.

• 三月小姐给了我一本英语词典。

  Miss March gave me an English dictionary.

• 不提英语，他还会说德语和法语。

  He knows German and French, not to mention English.

• 不要放棄英語。

  Don't give up English.

• 不要逐字逐句的把英文翻译成日文。

  Don't translate English into Japanese word for word.

• 丽萨不但会说英文，而且会说法文。

  Lisa speaks not only English but also French.

• 今天下午我有两个小时的英语课和两个小时的汉语课。

  This afternoon I have English class for two hours and then two hours of Chinese.

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