势 勢
势勢 in English
- power / influence / potential / momentum / tendency / trend / situation / conditions / outward appearance / sign / gesture / male genitals
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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 勢, the traditional character: 势 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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世界人口有上升的趋势。
The world's population tends to increase.
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主场队总是比对手有优势。
The home team always have an advantage over their opponents.
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在学校时我学了中文是个优势。
It was an advantage having learned Chinese while I was in school.
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昨晚雨势很大。
We had a heavy rainfall last night.
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这种科技的优势是什么？
What is the advantage of this technology?
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那是个微妙的局势。
It's a delicate situation.