入门问讳入門問諱 in English
- (idiom) In ancient times, visitors first asked for the names of a person’s father and grandfather so that they could avoid uttering them.
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
入
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
门
These are the forms of 門, the traditional character: 门 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
问
These are the forms of 問, the traditional character: 问 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
讳
These are the forms of 諱, the traditional character: 讳 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).