轩鹤冠猴 軒鶴冠猴

轩鹤冠猴軒鶴冠猴 in English

xuān hè guàn hóu
(idiom) People unworthy of office who improperly enjoy official privileges while possessing only a superficial appearance of merit.

Character breakdown

How it used to be written

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

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

  • Small seal script: 猴 Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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