一尘不缁 一塵不緇

一尘不缁一塵不緇 in English

yī chén bù zī
(idiom) Describes someone or something entirely unaffected by bad habits or corrupting influences / it can also mean exceptionally clean.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 一 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 一 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 不 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 不 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

These are the forms of 塵, the traditional character: 尘 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

These are the forms of 緇, the traditional character: 缁 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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