中华 中華
中华中華 in English
- Zhonghua, historical and cultural term for China, often used to denote Chinese civilization and identity (as in 中華文化|中华文化[Zhong1hua2 wen2hua4] "Chinese culture") / used in the official name of the Republic of China, 中華民國|中华民国[Zhong1hua2 Min2guo2]
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation 
Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
中
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 30 forms
华
These are the forms of 華, the traditional character: 华 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 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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中国，全名中华人民共和国，位于亚洲东部，太平洋西岸。
China, otherwise known as the People's Republic of China, is located in east Asia, on the western coast of the Pacific ocean.
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几近失传的中华礼仪用语。
Nearly lost Chinese etiquette terms.