岳峙渊渟

岳峙渊渟 in English

yuè zhì yuān tíng
(idiom) Originally described an army that was stable and immovable / it later came to refer mainly to a resolute and composed person.

Character breakdown

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 嶽, the traditional character: 岳 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

These are the forms of 淵, the traditional character: 渊 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Clerical script: 渟 Clerical script 西晉

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

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