正谏不讳正諫不諱

正谏不讳正諫不諱 in English

zhèng jiàn bù huì: (idiom) To offer advice or remonstrance frankly and without concealment. It means speaking directly, without avoiding sensitive matters.

Character breakdown

正 zhēng first month of the lunar year
谏諫 jiàn to remonstrate
不 bù no
讳諱 huì to avoid mentioning

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 不 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 不

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
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谏

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

Bronze script 西周晚期
Clerical script 東漢
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不

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
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讳

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

Bronze script 春秋晚期
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).

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