桑枢畒牖

桑枢畒牖 in English

sāng shū wèng yǒu
(idiom) Describes a poor household whose door has a mulberry-wood hinge and whose window is made from a broken jar.

Character breakdown

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 樞, the traditional character: 枢 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 樞 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 樞 Clerical script 東漢

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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