秀才不出门,而知天下事 in English
- (idiom) An educated person can know what is happening in the world while staying at home.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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.
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.
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
秀
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 8 forms
才
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 25 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
出
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
门
These are the forms of 門, the traditional character: 门 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
而
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 16 forms
知
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Bronze script 春秋 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
天
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
下
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東晉 - See all 18 forms
事
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).