Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
- 支 zhī to support; to sustain; to erect; to raise; branch; division; to draw money; classifier for rods such as pens and guns... 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
- 条 tiáo strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) attested in use
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
那
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
么
These are the forms of 麼, the traditional character: 么 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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不是那么远。
It's not that far.
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不要走得那么快！我跟不上你们了。
Don't walk so fast! I can't keep up with you.
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不要那么幼稚。
Don't be so childish.
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不要那么懒啊！
Don't be so lazy.
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为什么你买了一本那么贵的词典？
Why did you get such a costly dictionary?
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为什么生活充满着那么多痛苦?
Why is life so full of suffering?
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为什么那么多人访问京都？
Why do so many people visit Kyoto?
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五十岁以后学一门新的语言不是那么容易。
It's not that easy to learn a new language after fifty.