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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
动
These are the forms of 動, the traditional character: 动 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
手
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 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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他和朋友起了口角，然后动手打了他。
He had words with his friend and then struck him.
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他和老婆吵架没问题，但是动手打老婆就不应该了。
It's not an issue if he argues with his wife, but he shouldn't hit her.
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你怎么敢指责我做这种事？我决不会动手打我的儿子。
How can you accuse me of such a thing? I would never lay a hand on my child.
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你是动手能力强的人吗？
Are you a hands-on person?
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医生决定立刻动手术。
The doctor decided to operate at once.
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我得了胃肿瘤，必须动手术切除。
I got a stomach tumor and had to have it operated on.
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汤姆善於动手。
Tom is very good at doing things with his hands.