Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 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、二、三、四、五、六、七、八、九、十。
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
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一分钟有六十秒。
A minute has sixty seconds.
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上周六，因为我母亲病了，我无法离开家。
I was unable to leave home last Saturday, with my mother being ill.
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下午六点半到帝国酒店的大堂找我。
Meet me at the lobby of the Imperial Hotel at 6:30 p.m.
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中国政府控制了网络，以免让人民知道六四事件的真相。
The Chinese government controlled the internet to prevent the people from knowing the truth of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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为什麽你星期六来不了？
Why couldn't you come on Saturday?
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今天是我十六歲的生日。
Today is my sixteenth birthday.
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从苏黎世到波士顿坐飞机要八个小时，但是返回时只要六个。
It takes eight hours to fly from Zurich to Boston, but only six for the return trip.