二八年华

二八年华 in English

èr bā nián huá: (idiom) The age of fifteen or sixteen, regarded as the finest period of youth. The expression is generally used of a teenage girl or young woman.

Character breakdown

二 èr two
八 bā eight
年秊 nián grain
华華 huá magnificent

Stroke order

Le caractère 二 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 二

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

Le caractère 八 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 八

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 年

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 华

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

How it used to be written

二

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

八

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

年

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 20 forms

华

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

Bronze script 春秋晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 7 forms

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

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