轩鹤冠猴軒鶴冠猴 in English
- (idiom) People unworthy of office who improperly enjoy official privileges while possessing only a superficial appearance of merit.
How it used to be written
轩
These are the forms of 軒, the traditional character: 轩 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 9 forms
鹤
These are the forms of 鶴, the traditional character: 鹤 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 3 forms
冠
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
猴
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).