in English

lián
lotus

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 蓮, the traditional character: 莲 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 火星上的神殿饰有莲花。

    The temples on Mars are decorated with lotus flowers.

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