颇頗 in English

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 頗, the traditional character: 颇 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Warring States script 戰國.秦
• Clerical script 西漢
• See all 3 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 医学的最新进展颇为显著。

  The recent advances in medicine are remarkable.

• 意料之外，收获颇丰。

  Unexpectedly, I struck fortune.

• 有关癌症成因的研究耗费颇巨。

  Research on the causes of cancer is very expensive.

• 汤姆好像颇为忙，对不对？

  Tom seemed quite busy, didn't he?

• 这一切在我看来都颇为荒唐。

  I think that this is all quite absurd.

• 这件物件的表面颇为粗糙。

  The surface of the object is fairly rough.

• 这家报社在当地知名度颇高。

  This newspaper is well known in the local area.

All example sentences with 颇