割须弃袍
割须弃袍 in English
- (idiom) To describe a military defeat followed by a wretched and humiliating escape.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
割
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
弃
These are the forms of 棄, the traditional character: 弃 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
袍
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 4 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).