安于故俗，溺于旧闻 in English
- (idiom) To cling to old customs and remain confined by past knowledge. It describes a conformist, conservative attitude that is content with the status quo.
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
安
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 31 forms
于
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
故
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
俗
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 8 forms
溺
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
旧
These are the forms of 舊, the traditional character: 旧 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 16 forms
闻
These are the forms of 聞, the traditional character: 闻 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
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).