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
年
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 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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他是最年长的儿子。
He's the oldest son.
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她现在更加年长也更加有智慧。
She is older and wiser now.
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当我年长时,我渐渐变得有远见。
I'm getting farsighted as I get older.
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汤姆不可能比我年长。
Tom can't be older than me.