礼下于人，将有所求 in English
- (idiom) Giving someone a gift generally indicates that one expects help or a favor from that person.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
礼
These are the forms of 禮, the traditional character: 礼 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
下
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東晉 - See all 18 forms
于
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
人
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
将
These are the forms of 將, the traditional character: 将 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
有
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
所
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
求
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).