荆钗布袄 in English
- (idiom) Describes a woman dressed very simply and poorly, with a twig hairpin and coarse cloth clothing.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
荆
These are the forms of 荊, the traditional character: 荆 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 16 forms
钗
These are the forms of 釵, the traditional character: 钗 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script
布
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
袄
These are the forms of 襖, the traditional character: 袄 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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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).