或是 in English
- or / either one or the other
Stroke order
Show the animation 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
或
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 18 forms
是
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 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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世上所有问题都可以用下面三种方式解决：接受，改变，或是干脆放开。
There are three solutions to every problem: accept it, change it or leave it.
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仍有在孩子熟睡后仍难以入眠的父母，他们担心如何偿还按揭月供、付医药费或是存够钱让孩子上大学。
There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for their child's college education.
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你可以拿大的盒子或是小的盒子。
You may take either the big box or the small one.
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健康比财富重要。这句话是对呢 ? 或是错呢 ?
Health is more important than wealth. Is this statement true? Or is it false?
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我们在书中认识的人可以带给我们愉悦或是他们与我们生活中挚爱的朋友相似，或是因为他们是我们所不熟悉却乐于结识的人。
The people we meet in books can delight us either because they resemble the friends we hold dear in real life, or because they are unfamiliar people that we are pleased to get to know.
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所有史蒂夫的工作不是無聊就是非高薪或是兩者兼而有之。
All of Steve's jobs were boring or not well-paid or both.
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若没有将衣服摺起来或是挂在衣架上，会起皱纹。
If you don't fold your clothes or hang them, they will be wrinkled.