老虎借猪，相公借书 in English
- (idiom) Describes something that perfectly matches one’s wishes and is claimed as soon as it is obtained.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
老
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 22 forms
虎
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 20 forms
借
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Warring States script 戰國.燕 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
猪
These are the forms of 豬, the traditional character: 猪 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
相
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 forms
公
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
书
These are the forms of 書, the traditional character: 书 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).