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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 奧, the traditional character: 奥 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 4 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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「克里奥帕特拉」这个名字已经成为了美女的代名词。
The name "Cleopatra" has become a byword for a beautiful woman.
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Karin是奥地利人。
Karin is Austrian.
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事实上，投掷侏儒是奥运会的运动项目。
Indeed, dwarf tossing is an Olympian sport!
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他参加了奥运会。
He took part in the Olympic Games.
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在奥运会的竞赛中，金牌代表第一名，银牌代表第二名，铜牌是第三名。
In Olympic competitions, a gold medal is for first place, a silver medal for second, and a bronze medal is for third place.
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奥林匹克的起源是什么？
What are the origins of the Olympics?
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奥运会最重要的不是获胜，而是参与。
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part.
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奥运会重要的是参与，不是获胜。
The important thing about the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part in them.