只准州官放火,不准百姓点灯 in English
- (idiom) To denounce the privilege of rulers or powerful people who allow themselves acts forbidden to ordinary citizens.
Character breakdown
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.
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.
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.
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
只
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Small seal script
准
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Clerical script 東漢
州
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
官
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
放
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
火
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
百
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 forms
姓
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
点
These are the forms of 點, the traditional character: 点 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
灯
These are the forms of 燈, the traditional character: 灯 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 東漢
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).