杯水之饯
杯水之饯 in English
- (idiom) To see someone off with a simple cup of water. Traditionally, the expression described an upright, incorruptible official devoted to public service.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
杯
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
水
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
之
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
饯
These are the forms of 餞, the traditional character: 饯 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).