截发锉藳

截发锉藳 in English

jié fà cuò gǎo: (idiom) Refers to cutting one’s hair to sell it in order to host a guest, then chopping up bedding straw to feed the guest’s horse. Describes wholehearted hospitality.

Character breakdown

截 jié to cut off (a length)
发發 fā to send out
锉銼 cuò file (tool used for smoothing)

Stroke order

Le caractère 发 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 发

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

截

Clerical script 東漢

发

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 19 forms

锉

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 西漢
See all 3 forms

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

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