偃旗卧鼓
偃旗卧鼓 in English
- (idiom) Originally, to conceal one’s movements during a military march so as not to be detected by the enemy.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
偃
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 7 forms
旗
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Warring States script 戰國.晉 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 11 forms
卧
These are the forms of 臥, the traditional character: 卧 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 7 forms
鼓
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Bronze script 商代晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).