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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
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 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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一般来说，消费者喜欢数量胜于质量。
In general, consumers prefer quantity to quality.
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他孩子般的笑很迷人。
His childlike laugh is charming.
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做完工作一般是五点半回到家里吃晚饭。
Once the work is done, usually around half past five, I come home to have dinner.
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她父母很漂亮，而她却长得一般。
Her parents are very beautiful, but she looks ordinary.
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尼古拉斯的用意是罗马化西里尔字母就犹如太阳般美丽，若是直视会灼烧人的眼睛。
Nicolas means that romanization of the Cyrillic alphabet is as beautiful as the sun, which burns your eyes when you look at it.
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我拒绝被像一个孩子般对待。
I refuse to be treated like a child.
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日本人一般都觉得自己的生活比以前过得好。
The Japanese at large consider themselves better off than they used to be.
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有人说过，不论黑猫白猫，能捉到老鼠就是好猫。但是，现在一般人很难见到老鼠了。那么，怎样的猫才是好猫呢？
Some people say, regardless of whether it is a black cat or a white cat, if it can catch mice it is a good cat. However, nowadays ordinary people rarely ever have mice. Therefore, how can a cat be a good cat?