天视自我民视，天听自我民听 in English
- (idiom) Ancient thinkers believed that Heaven had a will and the ability to perceive, expressed through the people's own perceptions.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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.
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.
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
天
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
视
These are the forms of 視, the traditional character: 视 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 forms
自
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
我
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 21 forms
民
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
听
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).