举贤使能 in English
- (idiom) To recommend the worthy and appoint the capable. The expression refers to selecting people for office on the basis of merit.
Stroke order
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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
举
These are the forms of 舉, the traditional character: 举 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
贤
These are the forms of 賢, the traditional character: 贤 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
使
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
能
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).