残膏剩馥

残膏剩馥 in English

cán gāo shèng fù: (idiom) A metaphor for the literary legacy left by writers of earlier generations.

Character breakdown

残殘 cán to destroy
膏 gāo ointment
剩 shèng to remain
馥 fù fragrance

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 残

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 剩

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

How it used to be written

残

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 4 forms

膏

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

馥

Small seal script
Clerical script

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

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