老医少卜

老医少卜 in English

lǎo yī shào bǔ: (idiom) An old doctor is valued for experience, while a young diviner is valued for boldness and decisiveness.

Character breakdown

老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a pers…
医醫 yī medical
少 shǎo few
卜蔔 bo radish (Raphanus sativus), esp. daikon

Stroke order

Le caractère 老 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 老

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

Le caractère 医 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 医

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

Le caractère 少 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 少

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

How it used to be written

老

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 22 forms

医

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

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Clerical script 東漢
See all 7 forms

少

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 24 forms

卜

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

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

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