起例发凡

起例发凡 in English

qǐ lì fā fán: (idiom) To explain a book’s general principles and establish its structure and editorial rules.

Character breakdown

起 qǐ to rise
例 lì example
发發 fā to send out
凡凢 fán ordinary

Stroke order

Le caractère 起 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 起

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 例 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 例

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 发 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 发

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 凡 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 凡

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

起

Warring States script 戰國.燕
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

例

Small seal script

发

These are the forms of 發, the traditional character: 发 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 19 forms

凡

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).

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