祝发文身

祝发文身 in English

zhù fā wén shēn: (idiom) To cut the hair short and tattoo the body. It refers to the customs and dress of peoples outside the Central Plains in ancient China.

Character breakdown

祝 zhù to pray for
发發 fā to send out
文 wén language
身 shēn body

Stroke order

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.

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 文

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 身

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

How it used to be written

祝

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 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

文

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 26 forms

身

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 25 forms

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

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