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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
These are the forms of 執, the traditional character: 执 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
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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他六歲的时候学会了用打字机，便和老师说他不用学执笔写字了。
At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.
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你执行你的计划了吗？
Did you carry out your plan?
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你还没到可以拿驾驶执照的年龄。
You're not old enough to get a driver's license.
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她很固执。
She's very obstinate.
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我们在任何公司都应该是执行者。
One must be an executive in some company.
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执子之手，与子偕老。
Today I take your hand so that we may grow old together.
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缓期执行在最后关头决定了下来。
A stay of execution was ordered at the eleventh hour.
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董事会一致决定任命她为执行总裁。
The board unanimously decided to appoint her as CEO.