笔

筆traditional

HSK 2#1245 by frequencyradical ⺮

bǐ["q","n"]

pen; pencil; writing brush; to write or compose; the strokes of Chinese characters; classifier for sums of money, deals

Measure words: 支, 枝

Examples

笔在桌上。

The pen is on the desk.

笔在那儿。

There is a pen.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.