英语英語 in English

Measure word

• 本 běn (bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this; (bound form) this; the current... attested in use
• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
• 所 suǒ actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative... attested in use
• 点 diǎn point; dot; drop; speck; o'clock; point (in space or time); to draw a dot; to check on a list; to choose; to order... attested in use
• 篇 piān sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old); classifier for written items... attested in use
• 节 jié joint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese... attested in use

Character breakdown

• 英 yīng hero
• 语語 yǔ dialect

Stroke order

How it used to be written

英

• Bronze script 春秋
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 11 forms

语

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

• Bronze script 春秋晚期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 9 forms

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

Examples

• 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.

• 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.

• 他不会说英语，法语就更别说了。

  He cannot speak English, much less French.

• 他不知道如何用英语写信。

  He doesn't know how to write a letter in English.

• 他们一周上3节英语课。

  They have English lessons three times a week.

• 他们会说英语。

  They can speak English.

• 他们学习英语吗？

  Do they learn English?

All example sentences with 英语