吴 吳
吴吳 in English
- surname Wu / area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai / name of states in southern China at different historical periods
Stroke order
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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 吳, the traditional character: 吴 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 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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吴语的方言差异很大。
Different variants of Shanghainese differ greatly with each other.
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我会普通话、西南官话、吴语和西班牙语。
I can speak Standard Chinese (Putonghua), Southwestern Mandarin, Wu Chinese, and Spanish.
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福建省的主要方言有闽语、客家话、吴语、赣语、南平官话。
The major dialects spoken in Fujian Province include Min, Hakka, Wu, Gan, and Nanping Mandarin.