主忧臣劳 主憂臣勞
主忧臣劳主憂臣勞 in English
- (idiom) When the ruler is troubled, his ministers must immediately devote themselves to serving him and addressing his concerns.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
主
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
忧
These are the forms of 憂, the traditional character: 忧 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
臣
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
劳
These are the forms of 勞, the traditional character: 劳 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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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).