请神容易送神难請神容易送神難 in English
- it's easier to invite the devil in than to send him away
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
请
These are the forms of 請, the traditional character: 请 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
神
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 15 forms
容
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉 - See all 13 forms
易
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
送
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 10 forms
难
These are the forms of 難, the traditional character: 难 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).