或者 in English

Character breakdown

• 或 huò maybe
• 者 zhě (after a verb or adjective) one who (is)…

Stroke order

How it used to be written

或

• Bronze script 西周早期
• Clerical script 西晉
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者

• Bronze script 商代晚期
• Clerical script 東漢
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 他走路或者骑车过来。

  He'll come on foot or by bicycle.

• 你有没有想过，鱼类是如何在寒冷的冬季生存的，或者当湖泊和池塘结冰时它们会去哪里？

  Have you ever wondered how fish survive in cold winter weather, or where they go when lakes and ponds freeze over?

• 您有注意到您的頭髪或者指甲有什麼變化嗎？

  Have you noticed any changes in your hair or nails?

• 所有人的作品，不管是文学、音乐、画作、建筑或者任何载体的，都是他自己的肖像。

  Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or a picture or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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