号称 號稱
号称號稱 in English
- to be known as / to be nicknamed / to be purportedly / to claim (often exaggeratedly or falsely)
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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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
号
These are the forms of 號, the traditional character: 号 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
称
These are the forms of 稱, the traditional character: 称 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 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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他虽然号称自己是个社会主义者，但是其实他拥有两套房子还有一辆劳斯莱斯。
He claims to be a socialist, and yet he has two houses and a Rolls Royce.