递 遞
递遞 in English
- to hand over / to pass on / to deliver / (bound form) progressively / in the proper order
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 遞, the traditional character: 递 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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“请把盐递给我。”“拿着。”
"Pass me the salt, please." "Here you are."
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他让我把盐递给他。
He asked me to pass him the salt.
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可以把牛奶递给我吗？
Can you pass me the milk?
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她成为了邮递员。
She has become a postwoman.
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能把那玩意儿递给我吗？
Can you pass me that thingamajig?
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请把书递给我。
Pass me the book, please.
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请把奶油递给我。
Pass me the butter, please.
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请把盐递给我。
Pass me the salt, please.