公耳忘私，国耳忘家 in English
- (idiom) To devote oneself to public affairs to the point of forgetting private interests, and to serve the state to the point of forgetting one’s family.
Stroke order
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
公
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
耳
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 19 forms
忘
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
私
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
国
These are the forms of 國, the traditional character: 国 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
家
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 34 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).