历史歷史 in English

Measure word

• 段 duàn paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc attested
• 门 mén gate; door; CL:扇[shan4]; gateway; doorway; CL:個|个[ge4]; opening; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family... attested

Character breakdown

• 历歷 lì to experience
• 史 shǐ history

Stroke order

How it used to be written

历

These are the forms of 歷, the traditional character: 历 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 孫吳
• See all 7 forms

史

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 12 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• Beth被她懒惰的男朋友要求帮他做历史作业。

  Beth was asked by her lazy boyfriend to do his history homework.

• 中国历史比日本历史更悠久。

  The history of China is older than that of Japan.

• 他在大学修读历史。

  He studies history at college.

• 他学了英国历史。

  He studied English history.

• 他学美国的历史。

  He studies American history.

• 他对日本的历史非常感兴趣。我们很惊讶他在这方面的丰富知识。

  He is very much interested in Japanese history. We are surprised at his vast knowledge of the subject.

• 他教我们历史。

  He teaches us history.

• 他有很多历史书籍。

  He has a lot of books on history.

All example sentences with 历史