桑枢畒牖 in English
- (idiom) Describes a poor household whose door has a mulberry-wood hinge and whose window is made from a broken jar.
How it used to be written
桑
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
枢
These are the forms of 樞, the traditional character: 枢 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢
牖
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).