曝腮龙门
曝腮龙门 in English
- (idiom) A carp drying its gills beneath the Dragon Gate. Figuratively, it refers to a candidate who has failed the imperial examinations.
Stroke order
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
龙
These are the forms of 龍, the traditional character: 龙 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 18 forms
门
These are the forms of 門, the traditional character: 门 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).