天书 天書
天书天書 in English
- imperial edict / heavenly book (superstition) / obscure or illegible writing / double dutch
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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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
天
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
书
These are the forms of 書, the traditional character: 书 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 11 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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我一周在这儿教五天书。
I teach classes here five days a week.
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看起来像天书。
It's all Greek to me.
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看起来这都是天书。
That was all Chinese to me.