Stroke order
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
多
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
个
These are the forms of 箇, the traditional character: 个 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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一个人帮不了许多个，但许多人能帮助一个。
One can't help many, but many can help one.
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一共有十多个学生。
There are about ten to twenty students in total.
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一百多个人在一个火车事故中受了伤。
A hundred people were hurt in a train wreck.
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他在多个领域取得了成就。
He achieved success in many fields.
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在同一句中不要包含多个可选单词。
Don't include multiple alternative words inside the same sentence.
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我们班有二十多个学生。
Our class has more than twenty students.
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我们班有十多个学生。
Our class has more than ten students.
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日本是由四个大岛和三千多个小岛组成的，面积和加州差不多。
Japan consists of four major islands and over 3,000 small islands, and is about equal to California in area.