洗耳投渊洗耳投淵

洗耳投渊洗耳投淵 in English

xǐ ěr tóu yuān: (idiom) Refers to the legends that Yao wished to yield the throne to Xu You and Shun to Beiduo.

Character breakdown

洗 xǐ to wash
耳 ěr ear
投 tóu to throw (sth in a specific direction: b…
渊淵 yuān deep pool

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 洗

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 耳

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 投

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

How it used to be written

洗

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

耳

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 19 forms

投

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

渊

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

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

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