来鸿去燕 來鴻去燕
来鸿去燕來鴻去燕 in English
- lit. the goose comes, the swallow goes (idiom) / fig. always on the move
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.
How it used to be written
来
These are the forms of 來, the traditional character: 来 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
鸿
These are the forms of 鴻, the traditional character: 鸿 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
去
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
燕
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).