千金买骨 in English
- (idiom) To spend a thousand pieces of gold on the bones of a thousand-li horse. It describes an eagerness to attract and recruit talented people.
Stroke order
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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
千
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
金
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
买
These are the forms of 買, the traditional character: 买 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
骨
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 13 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).