妄尘而拜 妄塵而拜
妄尘而拜妄塵而拜 in English
- (idiom) To welcome a powerful person by bowing as soon as one sees the dust raised by their carriage. It describes a servile, obsequious attitude.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
妄
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script - See all 4 forms
尘
These are the forms of 塵, the traditional character: 尘 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
而
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 16 forms
拜
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).