广州廣州 in English
- Guangzhou, sub-provincial city and capital of Guangdong Province 廣東省|广东省[Guang3 dong1 Sheng3] / see 廣州市|广州市[Guang3zhou1 Shi4]
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How it used to be written
广
These are the forms of 廣, the traditional character: 广 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
州
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 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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一八零七年，第一个到中国的英国新教徒传教士罗伯特马礼逊到了广州。
In 1807, Robert Morrison, the first British Protestant missionary to China arrived in Guangzhou.
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今天夜晚去广州的火车票还有吗？
Are there any tickets left for a train to Guangzhou tonight?
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从那时起，在广州每年春节的时候都有花节。
From then on, flower fairs were held in Guangzhou during the Spring Festival every year.
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因为气候又暖和又湿润，所以广州一年到头都有花。
With a warm and wet climate, Guangzhou has fresh flowers all year round.
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我住在广州。
I live in Canton.