绳愆纠谬

绳愆纠谬 in English

shéng qiān jiū miù
(idiom) To correct faults and rectify errors. It can also refer to pointing out someone’s failings in order to correct them.

Character breakdown

How it used to be written

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

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

These are the forms of 謬, the traditional character: 谬 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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