琴瑟和鸣琴瑟和鳴

琴瑟和鸣琴瑟和鳴 in English

qín sè hé míng: in perfect harmony / in sync / lit. qin and se sing in harmony

Character breakdown

琴琹 qín guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2] (a type of zither)
瑟 sè a type of standing harp, smaller than ko…
和 hé (literary) harmonious (variant of 和[he2]…
鸣鳴 míng to cry (of birds, animals and insects)

Stroke order

Le caractère 和 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 和

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

How it used to be written

琴

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 東漢
See all 7 forms

瑟

Warring States script 戰國.楚
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

和

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

鸣

These are the forms of 鳴, the traditional character: 鸣 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

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).

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