寿星壽星 in English
- god of longevity / elderly person whose birthday is being celebrated
Measure word
- 颗 kē classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc likely
Stroke order
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
寿
These are the forms of 壽, the traditional character: 寿 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉 - See all 16 forms
星
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).