蟾宫扳桂蟾宮扳桂 in English
- (idiom) In the era of the imperial examinations, to pass the examination and succeed. By extension, to achieve an excellent result in an examination.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
宫
These are the forms of 宮, the traditional character: 宫 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 14 forms
桂
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).