沅芷澧兰 沅芷澧蘭
沅芷澧兰沅芷澧蘭 in English
- (idiom) Originally referring to fragrant plants growing along the banks of the Yuan and Li rivers, it later came to describe people or things of noble and pure character.
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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
沅
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Bronze script 戰國中期.楚 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 3 forms
澧
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Bronze script 戰國中期.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉 - See all 4 forms
兰
These are the forms of 蘭, the traditional character: 兰 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).