孤臣孽子

孤臣孽子 in English

gū chén niè zǐ: (idiom) Isolated ministers and sons born to secondary wives figuratively represent people facing isolation and hardship.

Character breakdown

孤 gū lone
臣 chén state official or subject in dynastic Ch…
孽 niè son born of a concubine
子 zǐ son

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 孤

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 臣

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 子

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

How it used to be written

孤

Bronze script 商代晚期
Clerical script 西晉
See all 13 forms

臣

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

孽

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西漢
See all 5 forms

子

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 32 forms

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

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