厌家鸡，爱野雉 in English
- (idiom) To despise what is close at hand and favor what is distant or foreign. It criticizes undervaluing familiar people or things in favor of those from elsewhere.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
厌
These are the forms of 厭, the traditional character: 厌 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 7 forms
家
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 34 forms
鸡
These are the forms of 雞, the traditional character: 鸡 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
爱
These are the forms of 愛, the traditional character: 爱 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 8 forms
野
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 18 forms
雉
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 11 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).