How it used to be written
These are the forms of 禱, the traditional character: 祷 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 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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他每天祈祷好几次。
He prays several times a day.
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在第比利斯,你可以看到世界上唯一一座什叶派和逊尼派穆斯林一起祈祷的清真寺。
In Tbilisi, you can find the only mosque in the world where shia and sunni Muslims pray together.
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大家来一起祈祷吧。
Let's all pray together.
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思念又祈祷。
Thoughts and prayers.
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思念和祈祷。
Thoughts and prayers.
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思念并祈祷。
Thoughts and prayers.
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我们一起祈祷这样的事别再发生了
Let's just pray it never happens again.
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我们全体为日本祈祷。
We are all praying for Japan.