新大陆新大陸 in English
- the New World / the Americas as opposed to the Old World 舊大陸|旧大陆[jiu4 da4 lu4] or Eurasia
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.
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
新
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 14 forms
大
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
陆
These are the forms of 陸, the traditional character: 陆 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 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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哥伦布的发现新大陆法则：如果你在克里斯多福·哥伦布之前发现了某个东西，那么你所发现的是不存在的。
Columbus's Law of Discovery states: If you discovered something BEFORE Christopher Columbus, then what you discovered does not exist.
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哥伦布航行至遥远的西方，去寻找一个新大陆。
Columbus sailed farther west to look for a new continent.