How it used to be written
These are the forms of 壽, the traditional character: 寿 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉 - 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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一些人用手吃寿司。
Some people eat sushi with their hands.
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为什么不尝尝寿司?
Why don't you have some sushi?
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女人通常比男人寿命长。
Women generally live longer than men.
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女性通常比男性长寿。
Women generally live longer than men.
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她不喜欢寿司。
She does not like sushi.
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有人告诉过我,我们每抽一根烟,寿命就会缩短七分钟。
Someone told me that every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes away from your life.