读书三余 in English
- (idiom) The “three spare periods” are winter, nighttime, and rainy days. The expression means that one should make use of every bit of free time for serious study.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
读
These are the forms of 讀, the traditional character: 读 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 3 forms
书
These are the forms of 書, the traditional character: 书 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
三
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
余
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 23 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).