书画卯酉 in English
- (idiom) To work regular office hours, from signing in at dawn to signing out in the evening.
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.
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
书
These are the forms of 書, the traditional character: 书 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 11 forms
画
These are the forms of 畫, the traditional character: 画 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 15 forms
卯
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
酉
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).