正名

正名 in English

zhèng míng: to replace the current name or title of sth with a new one that reflects its true nature / rectification of names (a tenet of Confucian philosophy)

Character breakdown

正 zhēng first month of the lunar year
名 míng name

Stroke order

Le caractère 正 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 正

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 名 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 名

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

正

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 26 forms

名

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

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

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