昏镜重磨

昏镜重磨 in English

hūn jìng chóng mó
(idiom) To polish a tarnished bronze mirror again. Figuratively, it means regaining light or clarity after a period of darkness.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 镜 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 镜 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 重 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 重 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

昏

镜

These are the forms of 鏡, the traditional character: 镜 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

重

磨

  • Clerical script: 磨 Clerical script
  • Clerical script: 磨 Clerical script 東漢

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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