杜门却扫

杜门却扫 in English

dù mén què sǎo
(idiom) To shut one’s doors and stop receiving visitors. It refers to withdrawing from contact with the outside world.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Bronze script: 掃 Bronze script 西周早期
  • Clerical script: 掃 Clerical script

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

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