虽然雖然 in English
- although / even though (often used correlatively with 可是[ke3 shi4] or 但是[dan4 shi4] etc)
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
虽
These are the forms of 雖, the traditional character: 虽 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋中期 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 11 forms
然
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
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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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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他虽然很累，但是也继续工作。
Even though he was tired, he went on with his work.
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他虽然穷，但生活却过得很快乐。
Even though he was poor, he was happy.
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他虽然穷，却很幸福。
Even though he's poor, he's happy.
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我不想放弃我的想法，虽然一些想法有点极端。
I don't want to lose my ideas, even though some of them are a bit extreme.
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我的剑虽然是钝的，但应付你的话是绰绰有余的。
My sword may be blunt, but that's more than enough for someone like you.
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虽然他对我反复解释这首诗的意思，我还是不懂。
Even though he explained to me over and over again the meaning of this poem, I still don't get it.
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虽然他很小心，但还是犯了个想不到的错误。
Careful as he was, he made an unexpected mistake.