卖官卖爵 賣官賣爵
卖官卖爵賣官賣爵 in English
- (idiom) To accept money in exchange for selling official posts and titles. It refers to a form of corruption in government.
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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How it used to be written
卖
These are the forms of 賣, the traditional character: 卖 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 3 forms
官
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
爵
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).