白圭可磨

白圭可磨 in English

bái guī kě mó: (idiom) A blemish on white jade can still be polished away, but a misspoken word cannot be undone. It stresses that spoken words cannot be taken back.

Character breakdown

白 bái white
圭 guī jade tablet, square at the base and roun…
可 kě (prefix) can
磨 mó to rub

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 可 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 可

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

圭

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

可

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

磨

Clerical script
Clerical script 東漢

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

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