摘 (zhāi): meaning and stroke order

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• 书里的花也不一样，好像是从不同的地方摘来的。

  shū lǐ de huā yě bù yíyàng hǎoxiàng shì cóng bùtóng de dìfang zhāi lái de

  The flowers were all different too, as if picked in different places.

  From the story Flowers in the book return HSK 5

• 她们在一片桑树林里发现了许多白色的小果子，摘回来一尝，却又硬又没有味道。

  tāmen zài yí piàn sāngshùlín lǐ fāxiàn le xǔduō báisè de xiǎo guǒzi zhāi huílai yì cháng què yòu yìng yòu méiyǒu wèidao

  In a mulberry grove they found many small white "fruits", but when they picked them and tasted them, they were hard and tasteless.

  From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

• “四十年了。我儿子出生那年种的。他小时候最爱爬这棵树，每年摘柿子，都是他爬上去摘。”

  sìshí nián le wǒ érzi chūshēng nà nián zhòng de tā xiǎoshíhou zuì ài pá zhè kē shù měi nián zhāi shìzi dōu shì tā pá shàngqu zhāi

  "Forty years. I planted it the year my son was born. As a boy he loved climbing it; every year when we picked the persimmons, he was the one who climbed up."

  From the story The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9