驯 馴
驯馴 in English
- to attain gradually / to tame / Taiwan pr. [xun2]
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 馴, the traditional character: 驯 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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海豚和驯养员交流得比我们所期望的好得多。
The dolphin and trainer communicated much better than we expected.
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狮子听从驯兽师的指挥。
The lion followed the trainer's commands.