大义灭亲大義滅親 in English
- to place righteousness before family (idiom) / ready to punish one's own family if justice demands it
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
大
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
义
These are the forms of 義, the traditional character: 义 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 23 forms
灭
These are the forms of 滅, the traditional character: 灭 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
亲
These are the forms of 親, the traditional character: 亲 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 14 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).