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Uhโ€ฆ yes. :grin: I went for a few calligraphy classes in primary school, and I bought a calligraphy book to improve my Chinese handwriting before coming to France for higher education. I guess that helped. My hand was shaking a little when I did the second half.

Now then, I guess Iโ€™ll take sentence 3:

โ‘ข ๅฎน็–‘่€…ใ‚ˆใ†ใŽใ—ใ‚ƒใ‚‚ใ‚„ใ‘ใฉใ‚’ใ—ใฆ็—…้™ขใณใ‚‡ใ†ใ„ใ‚“ใซๅ…ฅ้™ขใซใ‚…ใ†ใ„ใ‚“ใ—ใฆใ„ใฆใ€ใƒ™ใƒƒใƒ‰ใซๅฏใญใŸใพใพ่ญฆๅฏŸใ‘ใ„ใ•ใคใซ้‹ใฏใ“ใฐใ‚Œใพใ—ใŸใ€‚

suspect [inclusion] burn [object] do-TE hospital [location/direction] enter-hospital do-continuous-TE, bed [location] sleep-past state police [agent] transport-passive-polite-past

The suspect also sustained burns and has been admitted to hospital, and was transported by the police while remaining in bed.

ๅฎน็–‘่€…: ่€…=person; ๅฎน=contain/enclose; ็–‘=suspicion. Somebody who โ€˜containsโ€™ suspicion is thus a suspect.
ใ‚„ใ‘ใฉ: the kanji are ็ซๅ‚ท (=fire-injury), but itโ€™s supposed to mean ็„ผใ‘ๅ‡ฆ (still pronounced ใ‚„ใ‘ใฉ. I think ใฉ is from ใฉใ“ใ‚, which is a form of ใจใ“ใ‚=place). ็„ผใ‘ใ‚‹ means โ€˜to be burned/roastedโ€™. Itโ€™s the transitive version of ็„ผใ(yes, the kanji is still read as ใ‚„). Think yakiniku(็„ผ่‚‰). Or ๆ—ฅ็„ผใ‘(ใฒใ‚„ใ‘)=a sunburn. Thus, the suspect got burnt in the fire. The phrase for โ€˜to sustain burnsโ€™ is ใ‚„ใ‘ใฉใ‚’ใ™ใ‚‹.
ๅ…ฅ้™ขใ—ใฆใ„ใฆ: I believe the ใฆ-form of the continuous tenses (ใ—ใฆใ„ใฆ) is used because the suspect was still hospitalised when the police picked him up. Hence, we need to use ใ—ใฆใ„ใฆ to show that it was an ongoing state. (Itโ€™s also possible that he was still in hospital when this article was written.)
ใƒ™ใƒƒใƒ‰ใซๅฏใŸใพใพ: literally โ€˜(in the) state of having slept in bedโ€™, but it seems ใญใ‚‹ can literally just mean โ€˜to lie downโ€™, especially in the sense of โ€˜to lie in bed while sickโ€™.
้‹ใฐใ‚Œใพใ—ใŸ: the base verb is ใฏใ“ใถ. Itโ€™s a godan verb (i.e. the verb stem changes for different forms), so we remove the U at the end and add โ€˜-areruโ€™. ใฏใ“ใฐใ‚Œใ‚‹ is an ichidan verb (i.e. the verb stem doesnโ€™t change), so we can just remove the ใ‚‹ for conjugation and add the past form of ใพใ™, which is ใพใ—ใŸ.

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