Character breakdown
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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How it used to be written
爱
These are the forms of 愛, the traditional character: 爱 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 8 forms
尔
These are the forms of 爾, the traditional character: 尔 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 9 forms
兰
These are the forms of 蘭, the traditional character: 兰 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 6 forms
共
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Bronze script 商代晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
和
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 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
旗
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Warring States script 戰國.晉 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 11 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).