夺 奪
夺奪 in English
- to seize / to take away forcibly / to wrest control of / to compete or strive for / to force one's way through / to leave out / to lose
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 奪, the traditional character: 夺 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 7 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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这项法律会剥夺我们的基本权利。
This law will deprive us of our basic rights.
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随着无继承人的国王的发疯和王室家族的中毒，将军终于有机会篡夺王位。
With the heirless king going crazy and royal family poisoned, the general of the army finally had his chance to usurp the throne.