亥豕相望

亥豕相望 in English

hài shǐ xiāng wàng: (idiom) Describes a text containing many copying errors or miswritten characters.

Character breakdown

亥 hài 12th earthly branch: 9-11 p.m., 10th sol…
豕 shǐ hog
相 xiāng each other
望朢 wàng 15th day of month (lunar calendar)

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 相

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 望

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

How it used to be written

亥

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉
See all 26 forms

豕

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

相

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 22 forms

望

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 19 forms

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

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