挥毫命楮 揮毫命楮

挥毫命楮揮毫命楮 in English

huī háo mìng chǔ
(idiom) To begin writing. The brush is referred to by 毫, while 楮, a tree used to make paper, stands for paper.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 挥 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 挥 Show the animation
Le caractère 揮 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

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

Le caractère 毫 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 毫 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 命 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 命 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

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

  • Clerical script: 毫 Clerical script 西漢

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

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