白往黑归

白往黑归 in English

bái wǎng hēi guī: (idiom) To be misled by appearances instead of seeing the true nature of things. It can also highlight inconsistent behavior depending on the circumstances.

Character breakdown

白 bái white
往 wǎng to go (in a direction)
黑 hēi black
归歸 guī to return

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 往

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 黑

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 归

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

往

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

黑

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

归

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 20 forms

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

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