废然思返 in English
- (idiom) Describes leaving in disappointment and giving up on continuing. Here, the first part indicates that doubts or hopes have given way.
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.
How it used to be written
废
These are the forms of 廢, the traditional character: 废 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 5 forms
然
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
思
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Warring States script 戰國.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
返
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Warring States script 戰國.齊 -
Small seal script - See all 10 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).