Measure word
- 位 wèi position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2... attested in use
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
法
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
国
These are the forms of 國, the traditional character: 国 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 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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Tatoeba： 因为从来不能遇到够多的法国人。
Tatoeba: Because you can't meet enough frenchies.
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Tatoeba: 因为你不能遇到够多的法国人。
Tatoeba: Because you can't meet enough frenchies.
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一个真正的德国人无法忍受法国人，但他很愿意喝他们的酒。
A true German can't stand the French, yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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他从没去过法国。
He has not been to France.
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他们是从法国南部来的。
They come from the south of France.
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他前天拜会了法国总统。
He made an official visit to the French president the day before yesterday.
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他将要成为中国驻法国大使馆的外交官。
He is about to become a diplomat at the Chinese Embassy in France.
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他是从法国来的。
He is from France.