清渭浊泾 清渭濁涇
清渭浊泾清渭濁涇 in English
- (idiom) The Wei is clear and the Jing muddy, yet when the Jing flows into the Wei, the waters remain distinct.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
清
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
渭
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
浊
These are the forms of 濁, the traditional character: 浊 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國早期.楚 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 9 forms
泾
These are the forms of 涇, the traditional character: 泾 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).