汉字 漢字
汉字漢字 in English
- Chinese character(s)
Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
Stroke order
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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
汉
These are the forms of 漢, the traditional character: 汉 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
字
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Bronze script 商代晚期 -
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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你会读这个汉字吗？
Can you read this kanji?
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我在学汉字。
I am studying kanji.
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日语和汉语的汉字发音截然不同，对吗？
The Japanese and Chinese pronunciation for kanji is very different, isn't it?
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汉字很难学。
Chinese characters are difficult to learn.
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汉字很难读。
Kanji are difficult to read.