朝闻道，夕死可矣 朝聞道，夕死可矣
朝闻道，夕死可矣朝聞道，夕死可矣 in English
- (idiom) Describes an urgent pursuit of truth or a deeply held belief, to the point that gaining enlightenment is considered worth dying for immediately afterward.
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.
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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.
How it used to be written
朝
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
闻
These are the forms of 聞, the traditional character: 闻 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 forms
道
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 25 forms
夕
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
死
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 23 forms
可
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
矣
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
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).