澄心涤虑

澄心涤虑 in English

chéng xīn dí lǜ
(idiom) To clarify one’s thoughts and rid oneself of distracting concerns.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

  • Clerical script: 澄 Clerical script

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 慮, the traditional character: 虑 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

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

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