江淹梦笔江淹夢筆 in English
- (idiom) According to legend, Jiang Yan dreamed that Guo Pu asked him to return the five-colored brush, after which his poems no longer contained fine lines.
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
江
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
淹
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
梦
These are the forms of 夢, the traditional character: 梦 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 13 forms
笔
These are the forms of 筆, the traditional character: 笔 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).