荆钗布裙
荆钗布裙 in English
- (idiom) A thorn branch used as a hairpin and a coarse-cloth skirt. Describes a woman dressed very simply.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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
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
裙
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Bronze script 戰國 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).