置而不问 置而不問
置而不问置而不問 in English
- (idiom) The passage laments that capable people are discarded while the incapable are neither removed nor questioned, and asks how long affairs can continue without falling into ruin.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
置
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
而
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 16 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
问
These are the forms of 問, the traditional character: 问 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).