杞人忧天 杞人憂天
杞人忧天杞人憂天 in English
- man of Qǐ fears the sky falling (idiom) / groundless fears
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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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
杞
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
人
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
忧
These are the forms of 憂, the traditional character: 忧 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
天
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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).