典

典 in English

diǎn: canon / law / standard work of scholarship / literary quotation or allusion / ceremony / to be in charge of / to mortgage or pawn

Stroke order

Le caractère 典 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 典

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

Tatoeba不是词典。

Tatoeba isn't a dictionary.
Tatoeba是一本字典。

Tatoeba is a dictionary.
Tatoeba是一本辞典。

Tatoeba is a dictionary.
三月小姐给了我一本英语词典。

Miss March gave me an English dictionary.
为什么你买了一本那么贵的词典？

Why did you get such a costly dictionary?
书桌上的词典是我的。

The dictionary on the desk is mine.
他的妻子是瑞典人。

His wife is Swedish.
他说的词典图书馆没有.

The dictionary he talked about isn't available in the library.

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