中馈乏人

中馈乏人 in English

zhōng kuì fá rén: (idiom) To have no wife. The expression refers to the absence of the woman traditionally responsible for managing the household and its meals.

Character breakdown

中 zhōng within
馈饋 kuì (bound form) to present (a gift)
乏 fá short of
人 rén person

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 中

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 乏

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 人

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

How it used to be written

中

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 30 forms

馈

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

Bronze script 春秋晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

乏

Warring States script 戰國.燕
Clerical script 東漢
See all 8 forms

人

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

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

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