Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
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
美
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 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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Facebook用户数量超过美国人口。
The amount of people on Facebook is greater than the population of the United States of America.
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Ken七月底要去美国了。
Ken is going to the United States at the end of July.
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为什么美国政府让人们持有枪械？
Why does the US government let people have guns?
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交通事故是美国青少年死亡的主要原因。
Car accidents are the leading cause of death for teenagers in the United States.
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他上星期去了美国。
He went to America last week.
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他不是美国人。
He is not an American.
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他为美国承受了比我们大多数人所能想象的更多的牺牲。
He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine.
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他从美国回来了。
He came back from America.