先从隗始 in English
- (idiom) To begin by appointing me, Guo Wei, in order to attract people more talented than I am. It is used as a self-recommendation.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
先
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
从
These are the forms of 從, the traditional character: 从 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
隗
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 6 forms
始
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Bronze script 商代晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).