应天受命 應天受命
应天受命應天受命 in English
- (idiom) To follow the Way of Heaven and receive the Mandate of Heaven. It is used mainly of an emperor’s accession to the throne.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
应
These are the forms of 應, the traditional character: 应 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
天
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
受
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
命
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 - See all 18 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).