Character breakdown
2 characters · plays one at a time
Watch how each character of 公元 is written, one at a time. When a character is finished, the next one draws.
Example sentences
How 公元 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.
公元是从基督的生年算起的。
gōng yuán shì cóng jī dū de shēng nián suàn qǐ de
The Christian era is counted from the birth of Christ.
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