临难如归臨難如歸 in English
- (idiom) To face death as calmly as one would return home, that is, without fearing it. The expression praises exceptional courage and resolve.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
临
These are the forms of 臨, the traditional character: 临 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
难
These are the forms of 難, the traditional character: 难 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
如
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
归
These are the forms of 歸, the traditional character: 归 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
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).