Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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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
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
时
These are the forms of 時, the traditional character: 时 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 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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他们当时很富有。
They were wealthy.
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他当时一个人。
He was alone.
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他当时一个人在家。
He was home alone at the time.
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他当时很累。
He was tired then.
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她当时只有一丁点儿钱。
She had only a small sum of money.
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如果他当时再努力一点，他就成功了。
With a little more effort, he would have succeeded.
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如果他当时再小心一点点，事故就不会发生了。
If he had been a little more careful, the accident would have been avoided.
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如果当时买了那幅画，我现在就是一个富翁了。
If I had bought the painting then, I would be rich now.