冠盖相望

冠盖相望 in English

guān gài xiāng wàng: (idiom) Describes envoys or officials traveling back and forth continuously, with their carriages always visible to one another.

Character breakdown

冠 guān hat
盖蓋 gài lid
相 xiāng each other
望朢 wàng 15th day of month (lunar calendar)

Stroke order

Le caractère 盖 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 盖

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 相 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 相

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 望 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 望

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

冠

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

盖

These are the forms of 蓋, the traditional character: 盖 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Bronze script 春秋中期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

相

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 22 forms

望

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 19 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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