庄莊 in English
- farmstead / village / manor / place of business / banker (in a gambling game) / grave or solemn / holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)
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 莊, the traditional character: 庄 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 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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一个神圣的仪式在庄严的庙宇中举行。
A sacred ritual took place in the magnificent temple.
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去那个村庄的唯一途径是过河。
The only access to the village is from the river.
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它也会杀死庄稼。
It can also kill crops.
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庄子曾梦见自己化身为蝶，当他醒来，他分不清是自己刚刚梦见自己变成蝴蝶呢，还是蝴蝶正梦见它变成了庄子。
Once, Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly, but when he woke up, he wasn't sure whether he was Zhuangzi who had dreamed being a butterfly or if he was a butterfly now dreaming he was Zhuangzi.
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我哥住在一座小村庄里。
My brother lives in a small village.