借光
借光 in English
- excuse me (i.e. let me through, please) / reflected glory / to benefit from sb else's prestige
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
借
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Warring States script 戰國.燕 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
光
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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月本无光，借光於日，返照夜之游子。
The moon has no light of its own, but rather it reflects the light of the sun to the children of the night.