洞幽烛微 洞幽燭微

洞幽烛微洞幽燭微 in English

dòng yōu zhú wēi
(idiom) To have a penetrating eye capable of seeing into the profound and minute aspects of things. It describes someone with exceptionally sharp powers of observation.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 洞 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 洞 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 微 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 微 Show the animation

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

How it used to be written

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

  • Warring States script: 微 Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦
  • Clerical script: 微 Clerical script 東漢
  • See all 7 forms

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

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