秉烛待旦 秉燭待旦
秉烛待旦秉燭待旦 in English
- (idiom) To hold a lit candle until dawn. It describes an urgent wait and often an all-night vigil.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
秉
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
烛
These are the forms of 燭, the traditional character: 烛 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
待
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
旦
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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).