涤瑕荡垢

涤瑕荡垢 in English

dí xiá dàng gòu
(idiom) To eliminate old bad habits. It can also refer to removing shortcomings and harmful practices.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 荡 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 荡 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 滌, the traditional character: 涤 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 滌 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 滌 Clerical script 東漢

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

  • Small seal script: 垢 Small seal script

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

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