人亡物在

人亡物在 in English

rén wáng wù zài: (idiom) The person has died, but their belongings remain. Seeing these objects brings the deceased to mind and arouses painful emotion.

Character breakdown

人 rén person
亡 wáng to die
物 wù (bound form) thing
在 zài to exist

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 人

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

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 物 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 物

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 在

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

How it used to be written

人

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

亡

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

物

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 11 forms

在

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

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

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