侯王将相侯王將相

侯王将相侯王將相 in English

hóu wáng jiàng xiàng: (idiom) Princes, kings, generals, and high officials. Refers to the upper representatives of the ruling class in ancient society.

Character breakdown

侯 hóu marquis, second of the five orders of an…
王 wáng king or monarch
将將 jiāng will
相 xiāng each other

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 王

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 将

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

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

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.

How it used to be written

侯

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

王

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 28 forms

将

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

相

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 22 forms

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

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