发短信 發短信
Stroke order
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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.
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
短
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
信
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Bronze script 戰國中期偏晚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 24 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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他等火车的时候，一会儿听音乐，一会儿发短信。
While he was waiting for the train, he listened to music and sent text messages.
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老师没收了一个学生的手机，因为他在课上发短信。
The teacher confiscated a student's phone because he was texting in class.