犯颜敢谏

犯颜敢谏 in English

fàn yán gǎn jiàn
(idiom) To dare offend a ruler or superior in order to offer frank and forceful remonstrance. The expression praises the courage to speak the truth.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

These are the forms of 諫, the traditional character: 谏 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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