名存实废
名存实废 in English
- (idiom) An institution or rule still exists in name but has effectively been abolished or is no longer functioning.
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.
How it used to be written
名
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
存
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
实
These are the forms of 實, the traditional character: 实 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
废
These are the forms of 廢, the traditional character: 废 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 5 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).