遇文王施礼乐,遇桀纣动干戈 in English
- (idiom) To treat good people with courtesy and respond to bad people with force. It advocates adapting one's response to the character of the other person.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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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
遇
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
文
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
王
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 28 forms
施
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
礼
These are the forms of 禮, the traditional character: 礼 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
乐
These are the forms of 樂, the traditional character: 乐 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
桀
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Warring States script 戰國.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
纣
These are the forms of 紂, the traditional character: 纣 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script - See all 5 forms
动
These are the forms of 動, the traditional character: 动 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
干
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
戈
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script - See all 15 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).