筚门闺窬 篳門閨窬

筚门闺窬篳門閨窬 in English

bì mén guī yú
(idiom) A crude branch-built doorway and a humble dwelling / metaphorically, a poor person’s shabby home.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 门 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 门 Show the animation
Le caractère 門 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

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

How it used to be written

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

  • Small seal script: 篳 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 篳 Clerical script

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

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

  • Small seal script: 窬 Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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