圣诞老人聖誕老人 in English

Character breakdown

• 圣聖 shèng (bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral …
• 诞誕 dàn birth
• 老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a pers…
• 人 rén person

Stroke order

How it used to be written

圣

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script
• See all 3 forms

诞

These are the forms of 誕, the traditional character: 诞 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Bronze script 西周早期
• Clerical script 西晉
• See all 6 forms

老

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 西晉
• See all 22 forms

人

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 19 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 我九岁的时候问我妈妈圣诞老人是否真的存在。

  I was nine years old when I asked my mom if Santa Claus really existed.

• 我儿子相信圣诞老人。

  My son believes in Father Christmas.

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