本分
本分 in English
- (to play) one's part / one's role / one's duty / (to stay within) one's bounds / dutiful / keeping to one's role
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
本
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
分
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 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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富贵不能迷乱他的思想，贫贱不能改变他的操守，威武不能压服他的意志，这就是大丈夫的本分。
Wealth could not muddle his thoughts, poverty could not change his integrity, force could not oppress his will, this is what it means to be a man.