老吏断狱老吏斷獄

老吏断狱老吏斷獄 in English

lǎo lì duàn yù: (idiom) Describes a highly experienced person who judges right and wrong quickly and accurately.

Character breakdown

老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a pers…
吏 lì minor government official or functionary…
断斷 duàn to break
狱獄 yù prison

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 断 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 断

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

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
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吏

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

断

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

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
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狱

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

Bronze script 西周晚期
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 9 forms

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

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