独善自养 獨善自養
独善自养獨善自養 in English
- (idiom) To seek only one’s own improvement and cultivate oneself. The expression emphasizes inner cultivation and withdrawal from worldly concerns.
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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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
独
These are the forms of 獨, the traditional character: 独 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
善
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
自
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
养
These are the forms of 養, the traditional character: 养 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).