凤泊鸾漂鳳泊鸞漂 in English
- (idiom) Originally described calligraphy with free and graceful strokes. It later came to refer to separated spouses or a scholar facing hardship and frustration.
How it used to be written
凤
These are the forms of 鳳, the traditional character: 凤 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
泊
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 4 forms
鸾
These are the forms of 鸞, the traditional character: 鸾 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
漂
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).