亡国之社

亡国之社 in English

wáng guó zhī shè: (idiom) The ancestral shrine of a state that had perished. In ancient times, it symbolized a country’s destruction and served as a warning to the ruler.

Character breakdown

亡 wáng to die
国國 guó country
之 zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalen…
社 shè (bound form) society

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 亡

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 国

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 之

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 社

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

How it used to be written

亡

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

国

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

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
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之

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
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社

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

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

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