匹夫之谅 in English
- (idiom) Refers to the minor principle or narrow promise that an ordinary person insists on keeping. Also written 匹夫小谅.
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.
How it used to be written
匹
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
夫
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
之
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
谅
These are the forms of 諒, the traditional character: 谅 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 5 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).