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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 許, the traditional character: 许 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
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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一开始许多事情看上去不同了，但我很快习惯了我的新生活。
At first many things seemed different, but I soon got involved in my new life.
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上海以前有许多小河浜，其中有肇家浜、洋泾浜，现在都被填了。
There used to be a lot of small creeks in old time Shanghai, which included Zhaojia Creek and Yangjing Creek, but they're all covered up nowadays.
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不允许在火车上吸烟。
Smoking is not permitted on the train.
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不许讨论。
No discussion.
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世界上许多人在挨饿。
Many people are suffering from hunger around the world.
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世界上许多人很饥饿。
A lot of people are starving in the world.
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为了救许多人牺牲一个人是否道德？
Would it be ethical to sacrifice one person to save many?
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也许昨晚下了一场雨。
It may have rained a little last night.