三朝元老

三朝元老 in English

sān cháo yuán lǎo: (idiom) Originally, a senior and highly respected minister who served three generations of emperors. Today, it refers to a long-serving veteran of an organization.

Character breakdown

三 sān three
朝 cháo imperial or royal court
元 yuán currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan)
老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a pers…

Stroke order

Le caractère 三 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 三

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

Le caractère 朝 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 朝

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

Le caractère 元 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 元

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

Le caractère 老 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 老

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

How it used to be written

三

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

朝

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 21 forms

元

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 14 forms

老

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 22 forms

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

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