镇 鎮
镇鎮 in English
- to press down / to calm / to subdue / to suppress / to guard / garrison / small town / to cool or chill (food or drinks)
Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual 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.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 鎮, the traditional character: 镇 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 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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军队镇压了叛乱。
The army quelled the rebellion.
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小镇充满了活力。
The town was full of activity.
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我在一个小镇长大。
I grew up in a small town.
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我需要用药来镇痛。
I need some medicine to kill the pain.
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无论发生甚么事，你也要保持镇定。
Stay calm whatever happens.
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海啸席卷稻田， 淹没了城镇。
Tsunamis swept through rice fields and flooded the towns.
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这是一个歷史城镇。
This is an historic city.