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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
全
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
国
These are the forms of 國, the traditional character: 国 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 13 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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“单独二胎”政策已经在上海实施，将来可能会在全国推行。
The “One Only Child Parent for Two Children” policy is already in effect in Shanghai. In the future, it's possible that it will be implemented throughout China.
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他的影响遍及全国。
His influence extends all over the country.
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全国上下无不尊重首相。
The country respects the Prime Minister.
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我们的分店佈满全国。
Our branches extend all over the country.
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我们的建国理念是“人人生而平等”。几个世纪以来，我们一直在全国乃至世界范围内为实践上述理念的真谛而浴血奋斗。
We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words – within our borders, and around the world.
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汤姆被送到全国最差的监狱。
Tom was sent to the worst prison in the country.
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英语已经普及全国。
English has spread all over the country.
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这是一件全国性的丑闻。
It was a national scandal.