Measure word
- 张 zhāng to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes attested
- 曲 qǔ fermentation starter; leaven (molds, yeasts or bacteria used in fermenting soy products or brewing etc); Taiwan pr... attested
- 段 duàn paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc attested
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
音
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
乐
These are the forms of 樂, the traditional character: 乐 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 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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“他喜欢音乐吗？“ “是的， 他喜欢。“
"Does he like music?" "Yes, he does."
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“他喜欢音乐吗？”“是的。”
"Does he like music?" "Yes."
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“她喜欢音乐。”“我也是。”
"She likes music." "So do I."
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两兄弟都是音乐家。
Both brothers are musicians.
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他一面开车一面听收音机的音乐。
He drove the car, listening to music on the radio.
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他们在谈音乐。
They are talking about music.
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他喜欢这种音乐。
He is fond of this kind of music.
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他很喜欢音乐。
He likes music very much.