日中则昃,月盈则食日中則昃,月盈則食 in English
- (idiom) When something reaches its peak, it begins to decline or turn toward its opposite.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
日
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
中
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 30 forms
则
These are the forms of 則, the traditional character: 则 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 24 forms
昃
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 11 forms
月
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
盈
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
食
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).