Measure word
- 辆 liàng classifier for vehicles attested in use
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
日
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
本
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
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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1978年中国和日本签署了和平条约。
In 1978 a peace treaty was concluded between Japan and China.
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4在日本是一个不幸的数字。
Four is an unlucky number in Japanese.
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东京是日本的首都。
Tokyo is the capital of Japan.
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中国历史比日本历史更悠久。
The history of China is older than that of Japan.
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中国是日本的20倍大。
China is twenty times as large as Japan.
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中国比日本大得多。
China is much larger than Japan.
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中国比日本大得多。
China is much larger than Japan.
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京都市曾经是日本的首都。
Kyoto was the former capital of Japan.