秉公灭私

秉公灭私 in English

bǐng gōng miè sī: (idiom) To uphold justice and eliminate personal considerations. The expression praises fair and selfless conduct.

Character breakdown

秉 bǐng to grasp
公 gōng public
灭滅 miè to extinguish or put out
私 sī personal

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 公

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 灭

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 私

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

How it used to be written

秉

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

公

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 20 forms

灭

These are the forms of 滅, the traditional character: 灭 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Bronze script 春秋中期
Clerical script 東漢
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私

Bronze script 戰國晚期.秦
Clerical script 東漢
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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