循名考实 in English
- (idiom) To examine reality according to a stated name or function and require the name to match the facts. It also refers to checking titles against actual results.
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
循
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
名
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
考
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 32 forms
实
These are the forms of 實, the traditional character: 实 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).