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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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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
读
These are the forms of 讀, the traditional character: 读 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 3 forms
书
These are the forms of 書, the traditional character: 书 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 11 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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为什么你想到外国读书？
Why do you want to study abroad?
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为什么您想到外国读书？
Why do you want to study abroad?
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他厌倦了读书。
He got tired of reading.
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他后悔在校时没用功读书。
He regrets not having worked harder at school.
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他在读书中度过夜晚.
He spent the evening reading.
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你想去美国读书的话，一定要先申请一张学生签证。
If you want to study in the United States, you need to get a Student visa.
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你要去伦敦读书是真的吗？
Are you really going to London to study?
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你要去哪个高中读书？
Which high school are you going to study in?