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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 東, the traditional character: 东 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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一篇大学论文描述了充斥在西方科幻作品中的「东方主义」。
A university thesis describes the "Orientalism" that imbues sci-fi in the West.
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三年前我来到东京并一直住在这儿。
I came to Tokyo three years ago and have been living here ever since.
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上海的人口数量和东京相当。
The population of Shanghai is as large as that of Tokyo.
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上海被称为东方的巴黎。
Shanghai is referred to as the Paris of the East.
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不要东拉西扯。
Don't ramble.
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不要往地上扔任何东西。
Don't throw anything onto the floor.
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不要边吃东西边看书。
Don't eat while reading.
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世上没有比爱更有价值的东西了。
Nothing is worth more than love.