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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
国
These are the forms of 國, the traditional character: 国 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
外
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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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他一个人去了国外。
He has gone abroad by himself.
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他大半生都住在国外。
He lived abroad for much of his life.
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你在国外待了多久？
How long did you stay abroad?
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你经常去国外旅行吗？
Do you often travel abroad?
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其中，道教是本国的，其他是从国外引进的。
Of these, Taoism is a native religion, the others having been introduced from foreign lands.
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我想有一天去国外。
I'd like to go abroad one day.
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我有个到国外旅遊的机会。
I had a chance to travel abroad.
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我有几个朋友在国外。
I have some friends abroad.