匣里龙吟

匣里龙吟 in English

xiá lǐ lóng yīn
(idiom) Originally, the expression described a precious sword making a dragon-like sound inside its scabbard.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

  • Chu manuscripts: 匣 Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
  • Small seal script: 匣 Small seal script

These are the forms of 龍, the traditional character: 龙 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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