见义勇为見義勇為 in English
- to see what is right and act courageously (idiom, from Analects) / to stand up bravely for the truth / acting heroically in a just cause
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
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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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
见
These are the forms of 見, the traditional character: 见 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
义
These are the forms of 義, the traditional character: 义 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 23 forms
勇
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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几位见义勇为的乘客把小偷抓住了，还把他送到了警方的手中。
Some brave passengers caught the pickpocket and turned him over to the police.