濯足濯缨濯足濯纓

濯足濯缨濯足濯纓 in English

zhuó zú zhuó yīng: (idiom) Clear water can be used to wash one’s hat cords, while muddy water is fit only for washing one’s feet.

Character breakdown

濯 zhuó to wash
足 zú (bound form) foot
缨纓 yīng tassel

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 足

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

How it used to be written

濯

Bronze script 戰國早期
Clerical script 西晉
See all 5 forms

足

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

缨

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

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 西漢
See all 5 forms

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

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