照天蜡烛
照天蜡烛 in English
- (idiom) By metaphor, it refers to an upright and perceptive official who governs fairly and sees through matters clearly.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
照
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 5 forms
天
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
蜡
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏至西晉
烛
These are the forms of 燭, the traditional character: 烛 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).