老生常谭老生常譚

老生常谭老生常譚 in English

lǎo shēng cháng tán: (idiom) Ordinary, worn-out remarks lacking any originality. It refers to ideas or comments that everyone has heard before.

Character breakdown

老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a pers…
生 shēng to be born
常 cháng always
谭譚 tán to speak

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 生

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 常

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

生

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

谭

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

Clerical script 西漢

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

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