剑胆琴心
剑胆琴心 in English
- (idiom) To possess both refinement and courage. In old novels, the expression often described a talented scholar capable of excelling with both the pen and the sword.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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
胆
These are the forms of 膽, the traditional character: 胆 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 3 forms
琴
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
心
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 25 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).