文选烂，秀才半 in English
- (idiom) According to this satirical saying, studying the Wenxuan thoroughly is enough to make someone half a successful examination candidate.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
文
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
选
These are the forms of 選, the traditional character: 选 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 6 forms
烂
These are the forms of 爛, the traditional character: 烂 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Small seal script
秀
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 8 forms
才
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 25 forms
半
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Bronze script 春秋中期 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).