待字闺中 待字閨中
待字闺中待字閨中 in English
- (idiom) To remain in the women’s quarters while awaiting betrothal. In the traditional sense, it referred to an adult unmarried woman waiting to be married.
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.
How it used to be written
待
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
字
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Bronze script 商代晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
闺
These are the forms of 閨, the traditional character: 闺 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
中
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 30 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).