燕雁代飞
燕雁代飞 in English
- (idiom) Swallows come to temperate regions in summer and return south in winter, while wild geese follow the opposite pattern.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
燕
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 7 forms
雁
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 5 forms
代
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
飞
These are the forms of 飛, the traditional character: 飞 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).