三衅三浴 三釁三浴

三衅三浴三釁三浴 in English

sān xìn sān yù
(idiom) To bathe repeatedly and apply fragrant substances to the body. In ancient China, this was a ritual showing the highest respect for someone.

Character breakdown

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 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 釁, the traditional character: 衅 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 釁 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 釁 Clerical script 曹魏

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

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