三贞五烈三貞五烈 in English
- (idiom) In feudal society, praise for women regarded as exceptionally chaste and faithful. It reflects traditional standards of female virtue.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
三
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
贞
These are the forms of 貞, the traditional character: 贞 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
五
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 17 forms
烈
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).