耸壑凌霄
耸壑凌霄 in English
- (idiom) To rise from a deep valley to the heights of the sky / figuratively, to achieve more than others.
How it used to be written
耸
These are the forms of 聳, the traditional character: 耸 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
壑
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 4 forms
凌
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script - See all 4 forms
霄
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).