杜门却扫 in English
- (idiom) To shut one’s doors and stop receiving visitors. It refers to withdrawing from contact with the outside world.
Stroke order
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.
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
杜
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 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
却
These are the forms of 卻, the traditional character: 却 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
扫
These are the forms of 掃, the traditional character: 扫 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).