Stroke order
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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
当
These are the forms of 當, the traditional character: 当 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
上
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東晉 - See all 28 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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他设法当上了部长。
He made his way to the minister.
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布什继里根之后当上了总统。
Bush followed Reagan as president.
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汤姆当上了部长。
Tom became a minister.