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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 稱, the traditional character: 称 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 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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上海被称为东方的巴黎。
Shanghai is referred to as the Paris of the East.
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他称赞了我。
He paid me a compliment.
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他虽然号称自己是个社会主义者，但是其实他拥有两套房子还有一辆劳斯莱斯。
He claims to be a socialist, and yet he has two houses and a Rolls Royce.
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加里宁格勒旧称为哥尼斯堡。
Kaliningrad was once called Koenigsberg.
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外交部长称战争在所难免。
The Foreign Minister said that war was inevitable.
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她声称自己没罪。
She declared that she was not guilty.
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当两个女生都跟约翰宣称她们对他有感觉时，他不知道该跟哪个谈恋爱了。
When both girls told John they had feelings for him, he was in a quandary as to which girl he should be with.
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我们把他称为“臭鼬人”。
We call him "Skunk Man".