犯颜敢谏 in English
- (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.
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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How it used to be written
犯
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
敢
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 35 forms
谏
These are the forms of 諫, the traditional character: 谏 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
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).