今
Meanings
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- 1.now
- 2.the present time
- 3.current
- 4.contemporary
- 5.this (day, year etc)
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Wiktionary
- 1.now; at present; current
- 2.modern times
- 3.this
- 4.thus; promptly
- 5.if
- 6.a surname
- 7.now
- 8.then; in that case
- 9.nowadays
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Etymology
Ideogram (指事) – An inverted 曰 (yuē) ("to speak"), hence 亼 with a horizontal stroke at the bottom, so the inverted mouth means "not to speak". Another theory suggests that it depicts something in the mouth. Maybe the original form of 噤 (OC *ɡrɯmʔ, *ɡrɯms) or 吟 (OC *ŋɡrɯm, *ŋɡrɯms). If so, the derivative 含 (OC *ɡɯːm) refers to the original word. Etymology not clear. The word's root may be 其 (OC *ɡɯ, “this”) (Schuessler, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
你今兒個應當留守。
You should stay at home today.
汤姆今早出发晚了。
Tom got a late start this morning.
汤姆今早来了我的办公室。
Tom came to my office this morning.
現今每個人都對天花免疫了。
Everybody is immune to smallpox nowadays.
我今早起床时，我爸已经吃过早饭了。
My father had already finished breakfast when I got up this morning.
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