农历農曆 in English
- the traditional Chinese calendar / the lunar calendar
Stroke order
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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
These are the forms of 歷, the traditional character: 历 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - 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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2010年是农历的虎年。
2010 was the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese lunar calendar.
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中国农历年的一月一日为春节，是中国人民最隆重的传统节日。
The first day of the first month in the Chinese lunar calendar is Spring Festival, the most important festival for the people of China.
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今天是农历几号？
What day is today in the Chinese calendar?
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春节，即农历新年。
Spring Festival is also known as Chinese New Year.