虚堂悬镜虛堂懸鏡 in English
- (idiom) In former times, it described a local official who was incorruptible and impartial.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
虚
These are the forms of 虛, the traditional character: 虚 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
堂
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Warring States script 戰國.齊 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
悬
These are the forms of 懸, the traditional character: 悬 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 曹魏
镜
These are the forms of 鏡, the traditional character: 镜 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).