凤泊鸾漂 鳳泊鸞漂

凤泊鸾漂鳳泊鸞漂 in English

fèng bó luán piāo
(idiom) Originally described calligraphy with free and graceful strokes. It later came to refer to separated spouses or a scholar facing hardship and frustration.

Character breakdown

How it used to be written

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

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

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

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