因袭 因襲
因袭因襲 in English
- to follow old patterns / to imitate existing models / to continue along the same lines
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
因
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
袭
These are the forms of 襲, the traditional character: 袭 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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最光明的处世方法是既蔑视社会的因袭，又过着与社会的因袭不相矛盾的生活。
The most enlightened way of living is to despise social conventions while at the same time living your life in conformity to them.