推贤逊能 推賢遜能
推贤逊能推賢遜能 in English
- (idiom) To recommend worthy people and yield one’s position to the capable. The expression refers to voluntarily giving a position to someone more qualified.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
推
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
贤
These are the forms of 賢, the traditional character: 贤 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
逊
These are the forms of 遜, the traditional character: 逊 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
能
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).