进贤拔能 進賢拔能
进贤拔能進賢拔能 in English
- (idiom) To recommend the virtuous and appoint the capable. It has the same meaning as “recommend the worthy and employ the capable.”
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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How it used to be written
进
These are the forms of 進, the traditional character: 进 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
贤
These are the forms of 賢, the traditional character: 贤 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 13 forms
拔
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
能
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).