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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
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 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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「這是阿拉伯文嗎？」「不是，這是維吾爾文，一種中國西北部的語言。」
"Is this Arabic?" "No, it's Uyghur - a language that's spoken in northwestern China."
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中国与巴基斯坦、印度、阿富汗、塔吉克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、哈萨克斯坦、北朝鲜、老挝、越南、尼泊尔、不丹、缅甸、蒙古和俄罗斯接壤。
China shares borders with Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Mongolia and Russia.
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他们明天晚上都会去北京大学上课。
Tomorrow night, they will all go to Beijing University to attend class.
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他写了本关于美国南北战争的书。
He wrote a book about the American Civil War.
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他在北京工作。
He works in Beijing.
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他跟我说了他明天从北京机场飞往英格兰。
He told me that tomorrow he goes from Beijing to England by plane.
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你去过北海道吗？
Have you been to Hokkaido?
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北京昨天天气怎么样？
How was the weather yesterday in Beijing?