Stroke order
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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
阅
These are the forms of 閱, the traditional character: 阅 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 4 forms
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
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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一些人通过阅读来放松。
Some people relax by reading.
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他们正在阅读。
They're reading.
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到目前为止，你认为你阅读过多少书籍？
How many books do you think you have read so far?
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我喜欢阅读多于写作。
I prefer reading to writing.
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我想把阅读灯关了，行吗？
I'd like to turn off the reading lamp, is that OK?
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我没时间阅读。
I have no time to read.
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我继续阅读。
I went on reading.
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男孩学会了阅读。
The boy has learned to read.