瑕不掩玉

瑕不掩玉 in English

xiá bù yǎn yù: (idiom) Flaws cannot conceal merits / they remain secondary compared with the essential virtues.

Character breakdown

瑕 xiá blemish
不 bù no
掩 yǎn to cover up
玉 yù jade

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 不

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 玉

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

How it used to be written

瑕

Small seal script
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 7 forms

不

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 21 forms

掩

Small seal script

玉

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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