Stroke order
Show the animation 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
生
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
前
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 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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我出生前,我父亲就死了。
My dad died before I was born.
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父亲生前留下来的老古董,原来只是一堆不值钱的垃圾。
The antiques my father left when he died turned out to be nothing but worthless junk.