礼为情貌

礼为情貌 in English

lǐ wéi qíng mào: (idiom) A person’s manners and ritual conduct reveal their inner feelings / appearance and sentiment are thus mutually related as form and substance.

Character breakdown

礼禮 lǐ gift
为爲 wèi because of
情 qíng (bound form) feelings
貌 mào appearance

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 礼

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 为

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 情

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.

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

情

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

貌

Bronze script 商代晚期
Clerical script 西漢
See all 8 forms

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

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