Measure word
- 路 lù road (CL:條|条[tiao2]); journey; route; line (bus etc); sort; kind attested in use
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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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
然
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
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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“你喜欢蛇吗？”“当然不喜欢。”
"Do you like snakes?" "Of course not."
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“爸爸，这是真的剑吗？”“当然，毕竟这是一场对决。”
"Dad, this a real sword?" "Of course, it is a duel after all."
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世界不是如此糟糕，当然，你成功后，他会更美好。
The world is not so bad. Of course, it is better when you succeed.
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他当然是无辜的。
Of course he's innocent.
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你一错再错，当然会被处罚。
You do such a thing once too often and get punished.
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你在我们家睡觉当然能让你少花点钱。
It would of course be cheaper for you to sleep at our place.
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哦，当然。
Oh, sure.
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当然，对这个情况的另一个解释是中文比英文难学。
Of course, another explanation of this situation is that Chinese is harder to learn than English.