金钗十二 金釵十二

金钗十二金釵十二 in English

jīn chāi shí èr
(idiom) Originally, it described a woman wearing many ornaments in her hair. It later came to refer to a man with many wives or concubines.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 金 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 金 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 十 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 十 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 二 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 二 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

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

  • Small seal script: 釵 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 釵 Clerical script

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

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