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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
增
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 6 forms
长
These are the forms of 長, the traditional character: 长 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 29 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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7月份工业生产大幅增长。
Industrial production rose sharply in July.
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交通事故的数量似乎在增长。
The number of traffic accidents seems to be on the increase.
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我将确保你们在第一年后有一个增长。
I'll see to it that you have a raise after the first year.
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每年世界人口都有 2% 的平均增长。
Each year the world's population increases on average by two percent.
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汽车的数量在增长。
The number of cars is on the increase.
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由于农业的发展，食品全球产量能够跟上人口的增长，但只是牺牲了将来。
Thanks to the development of agricultural science, world food production has managed to keep up with population growth - but only at the expense of the future.
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由于诸多不幸因素，单亲家庭在增长中。
Due to a number of unfortunate causes, one-parent families are on the increase.
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由于诸多不幸因素，单亲家庭的数量在增长中。
Due to a number of unfortunate causes, one-parent families are on the increase.