宁可清贫，不作浊富 in English
- (idiom) It is better to remain poor while staying honest than to become rich through corrupt means. The expression places integrity above wealth.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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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
宁
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Small seal script - See all 6 forms
可
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
清
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
贫
These are the forms of 貧, the traditional character: 贫 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
作
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
浊
These are the forms of 濁, the traditional character: 浊 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國早期.楚 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 9 forms
富
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Bronze script 戰國.晉 -
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).