来来往往 in English
- (idiom) Describes people repeatedly coming and going, or repeated interactions and comings and goings.
Stroke order
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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
来
These are the forms of 來, the traditional character: 来 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
往
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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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当时正是早高峰，来来往往的行人和车辆很多。
It was the morning rush hour, and there were a lot of passing pedestrians and cars.
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武士团夥来来往往，忙於家族世仇；但绝大多数人继续耕作土地，只要他们不干涉自己村庄社区的独立，人们就对那些妄图统治他们的人漠不关心。
The warrior bands came and went, prosecuting their family feuds; but the great mass continued to till the soil, taking but little notice of their would-be rulers, so long as they did not interfere with the independence of their village communities.