剩馥残膏

剩馥残膏 in English

shèng fù cán gāo
(idiom) The cosmetics left over after a woman has made herself up / figuratively, writings produced by women in the privacy of the inner chambers.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 剩 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 剩 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 残 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 残 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

  • Small seal script: 馥 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 馥 Clerical script

These are the forms of 殘, the traditional character: 残 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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