福过灾生 in English
- (idiom) When happiness reaches its extreme, it eventually turns into misfortune. The expression warns that excessive success or pleasure may be followed by a reversal.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
福
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
过
These are the forms of 過, the traditional character: 过 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 15 forms
灾
These are the forms of 災, the traditional character: 灾 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
生
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).