时无英雄,使竖子成名 in English
- (idiom) When an era lacks true heroes, mediocre people may become famous by mere good fortune.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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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.
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.
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
时
These are the forms of 時, the traditional character: 时 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
无
These are the forms of 無, the traditional character: 无 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 24 forms
英
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Bronze script 春秋 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
雄
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
使
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
竖
These are the forms of 豎, the traditional character: 竖 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
子
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 32 forms
成
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
名
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).