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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 劉, the traditional character: 刘 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 西漢 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 8 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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刘备和诸葛亮是一支无法战胜的队伍。
Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang are an unbeatable team.
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刘晓波是中国人。
Liu Xiaobo is Chinese.