被褐怀玉 被褐懷玉
被褐怀玉被褐懷玉 in English
- (idiom) To possess genuine talent while living modestly. It describes someone from a poor background who has real abilities but does not show them off.
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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How it used to be written
被
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Warring States script 戰國.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
褐
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
怀
These are the forms of 懷, the traditional character: 怀 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 9 forms
玉
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).