身在江湖，心存魏阙身在江湖，心存魏闕 in English
- (idiom) Originally described an official who had left office but still longed to return to the court.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
身
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 25 forms
在
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
江
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
湖
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 3 forms
心
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 25 forms
存
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
阙
These are the forms of 闕, the traditional character: 阙 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).