畏天爱民 畏天愛民
畏天爱民畏天愛民 in English
- (idiom) To revere Heaven and care for the common people. In ancient times, this ethical idea served to uphold feudal rule.
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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How it used to be written
畏
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
天
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
爱
These are the forms of 愛, the traditional character: 爱 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 8 forms
民
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).