承颜顺旨

承颜顺旨 in English

chéng yán shùn zhǐ: (idiom) To ingratiate oneself through one’s demeanor and comply with a superior’s wishes.

Character breakdown

承 chéng to bear
颜顔 yán color
顺順 shùn to obey
旨 zhǐ imperial decree

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 承

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 顺

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

How it used to be written

承

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 11 forms

顺

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 13 forms

旨

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

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

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