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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.
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 15 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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"你为什么不去？""因为我不想去。"
"Why aren't you going?" "Because I don't want to."
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“为什么你不来？”“因为我不想。”
"Why aren't you going?" "Because I don't want to."
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Tatoeba： 因为从来不能遇到够多的法国人。
Tatoeba: Because you can't meet enough frenchies.
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Tatoeba: 因为你不能遇到够多的法国人。
Tatoeba: Because you can't meet enough frenchies.
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Tatoeba: 因为语言意义不只是单字的总合。
Tatoeba: Because a language is more than the sum of its words.
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上周六，因为我母亲病了，我无法离开家。
I was unable to leave home last Saturday, with my mother being ill.
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不是因为某人不理事实它们就会不复存在了。
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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不是因为读者对某本书不感兴趣，这本书就肯定是有问题的了。
Just because a certain book does not interest readers does not mean that the fault lies in the book.