穷鸟归人窮鳥歸人 in English
- (idiom) A bird unable to fly is forced to seek refuge in a person’s arms. It describes someone driven by hardship to turn to another person for support.
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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How it used to be written
穷
These are the forms of 窮, the traditional character: 穷 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 12 forms
鸟
These are the forms of 鳥, the traditional character: 鸟 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
归
These are the forms of 歸, the traditional character: 归 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
人
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).