灯谜 燈謎
灯谜燈謎 in English
- riddles written on lanterns (e.g. for the Lantern Festival at the end of Chinese New Year)
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
灯
These are the forms of 燈, the traditional character: 灯 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 東漢
谜
These are the forms of 謎, the traditional character: 谜 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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元宵节要猜灯谜。
It is a must to guess lantern riddles during the Lantern Festival.