How it used to be written
These are the forms of 勸, the traditional character: 劝 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 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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Okay。 听我解释。一，是他先动手。二，我身上有重要的东西。三，大众可为我证明当时我劝他别动手。
Okay. Hear me out. One, he started it. Two, I have important things on me. Three, everyone can testify that at the time, I told him not to hit me.
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他不顾我们的一再劝告。
He ignored all of our warnings.
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你为什么不他的劝告？
Why wouldn't you listen to his advice?
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你之前试着劝过汤姆去做那件事，对吧？
You tried to persuade Tom to do that, didn't you?
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医生劝我戒烟。
The doctor advised me to stop smoking.
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她劝告他不要那样做。
She advised him against doing it.
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她劝我别相信她的话。
He advised me not to believe what she says.
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小王听从了我的劝告，把烟戒了！
Xiao Wang followed my advice and quit smoking.