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| 漢字是歷史上最古老的文字之一，大概四千歲了。 | |
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Chinese characters are one of history's most ancient writing scripts, approximately four thousand years old. This sentence can not be used in Spoken Cantonese 國 Level: 3 |
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| 漢字是歷史上最古老的文字之一，大概四千歲了。 | |
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漢字
hon3 zi6 - Chinese character 是 si6 - is 歷史 lik6 si2 - history 上 soeng6 soeng5 - up, above 最 zeoi3 - most; extremely; exceedingly 古老 gu2 lou5 - [1] ancient; [2] old-fashioned 的 dik1 - possessive suffix 文字 man4 zi6 - writing; script 之一 zi1 jat1 - one (of a given quantity) 大概 daai6 koi3/3*2 - approximately 四千 sei3 cin1 - four thousand; 4,000 歲 seoi3 - year; age (of a person) 了 liu5 - le5: [particle] | liao3: understand; settle |
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| This sentence was added by claw and last edited on 29th Jan 2005 | |
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