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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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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
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
断
These are the forms of 斷, the traditional character: 断 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
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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不断前进，不断向上。
Onwards and upwards.
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他们不断地摸索。
They kept on feeling their way.
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他想成为有钱人，所以便从早到晚不断地工作。
He worked day and night so that he might become rich.
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他的成功来自他不断的努力多於来自他的才能。
His success is due more to his persistent hard work than to his talent.
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位处赤道附近一个狭窄区域的热带雨林，正在不断地遭受人类的破坏，预计在二零零零年之前，该区域将会有五分之四的热带雨林从地球上消失。
The tropical rainforests, located in a narrow region near the equator, are disappearing so fast that by the year 2000 eighty percent of them may be gone.
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儘管庄不断发誓她不变的爱情，斯宾塞仍然害怕有一天她会不爱他了。
Despite Trang's constant affirmations of love, Spenser is still afraid someday she will fall out of love with him.
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变性者需要不断服用激素来维持性别特征吗？
Do transgender people need to continuously use hormones to maintain their sexual characteristics?
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在过敏的季节不断地擤他的鼻子.
Constantly blowing his nose in allergy season.