云起龙骧

云起龙骧 in English

yún qǐ lóng xiāng
(idiom) Like rising clouds and a soaring dragon, it describes heroes and eminent figures rising when the time is right. The expression is generally laudatory.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 云 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 云 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 起 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 起 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 龙 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 龙 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

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

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

  • Small seal script: 驤 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 驤 Clerical script 西晉

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

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