白发苍颜

白发苍颜 in English

bái fà cāng yán: (idiom) To have white hair and a grayish complexion. It describes the appearance of an elderly person.

Character breakdown

白 bái white
发發 fā to send out
苍蒼 cāng dark blue
颜顔 yán color

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 白

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 发

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

How it used to be written

白

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

发

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 19 forms

苍

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

Bronze script 戰國.晉
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

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

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