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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
发
These are the forms of 發, the traditional character: 发 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 19 forms
展
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 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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中国发展得太快了。
China's developing too quickly.
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今年我们公司的发展速度大大超过去年。
This year, the speed of development in our company far exceeds that of last year.
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他为经济发展作了很多贡献。
He contributed much to the development of the economy.
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因为中国是个发展中的国家，所以有的方面没有西方国家那么好。
Because it's a developing country, some aspects of China aren't as good as those in Western countries.
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我肯定事情会往好的方向发展。
I am sure the situation will take a turn for the better.
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由于农业的发展，食品全球产量能够跟上人口的增长，但只是牺牲了将来。
Thanks to the development of agricultural science, world food production has managed to keep up with population growth - but only at the expense of the future.