墨绖从戎

墨绖从戎 in English

mò dié cóng róng: (idiom) To go to war while in mourning. It refers to joining the army and fighting during the mourning period.

Character breakdown

墨 mò ink stick
从從 zòng second cousin
戎 róng generic term for weapons (old)

Stroke order

Le caractère 墨 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 墨

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 从 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 从

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

墨

Warring States script 戰國.齊
Clerical script 西漢
See all 10 forms

从

These are the forms of 從, the traditional character: 从 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

戎

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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