紫陌红尘 紫陌紅塵

紫陌红尘紫陌紅塵 in English

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(idiom) It depicts the capital’s roads as bustling and filled with airborne dust. By extension, it refers to the illusory glory and riches of worldly life.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 红 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
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Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 红 Show the animation
Le caractère 紅 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
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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 紅, the traditional character: 红 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

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

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

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