独 獨
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 獨, the traditional character: 独 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
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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“你有没有兄弟姐妹？” “没有，我是个独生子女。”
"Do you have any siblings?" "No, I'm an only child."
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他喜欢独自一人散步。
He likes taking a walk by himself.
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他喜欢独自散步。
He likes taking a walk by himself.
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他够大了，可以独自旅行了。
He is old enough to travel alone.
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他独自环游了世界八十天。
He has traveled around the world in eighty days by himself.
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他独自生活。
He lives alone.
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保罗是个独生子，但是有很多表兄弟。
Paul is an only child, but he has a lot of cousins.
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印度于1947年脱离英国获得独立。
India gained independence from Britain in 1947.