绿珠坠楼

绿珠坠楼 in English

lǜ zhū zhuì lóu
(idiom) Lü Zhu was a singer in ancient times. The expression refers to her jumping from a tower to preserve her chastity.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

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

How it used to be written

绿

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

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

  • Small seal script: 墜 Small seal script

These are the forms of 樓, the traditional character: 楼 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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