日久见人心日久見人心 in English
- (idiom) Given enough time, one can see what a person is really like. Time reveals a person’s true character.
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
久
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
见
These are the forms of 見, the traditional character: 见 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
人
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
心
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 25 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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路遥知马力，日久见人心。
It's in times like these that the character of a person becomes apparent.