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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
马
These are the forms of 馬, the traditional character: 马 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 35 forms
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東晉 - See all 28 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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你必需马上去那儿。
It is necessary for you to go there immediately.
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你必须马上开始。
You must start at once.
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你必须马上行动。
It is imperative for you to act at once.
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你最好马上去睡觉。
You'd better go to bed at once.
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你最好马上回家。
You may as well return home at once.
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你马上出发，就可以赶上他们了。
Start right now, and you'll catch up with them.
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如果我早知道你在这儿的话，我马上就来了。
If I had known that you were here, I would have come at once.
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您应该马上做。
You should do that right away.