倒屣迎宾 倒屣迎賓

倒屣迎宾倒屣迎賓 in English

dào xǐ yíng bīn
(idiom) To put on one’s shoes backwards in one’s haste to welcome a visitor. It describes an especially warm reception.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

倒

  • Small seal script: 倒 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 倒 Clerical script 東漢

迎

宾

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

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

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