十里长亭

十里长亭 in English

shí lǐ cháng tíng: (idiom) A pavilion placed every ten li where travelers could rest and where relatives and friends often said farewell. The expression refers to a place of parting.

Character breakdown

十 shí ten
里 lǐ li, ancient measure of length, approx. 5…
长長 zhǎng chief
亭 tíng pavilion

Stroke order

Le caractère 十 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 十

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

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

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

Le caractère 长 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 长

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

How it used to be written

十

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

里

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

长

These are the forms of 長, the traditional character: 长 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 29 forms

亭

Bronze script 戰國.齊
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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