铁狱铜笼 鐵獄銅籠
铁狱铜笼鐵獄銅籠 in English
- (idiom) Describes a prison that is tightly enclosed and heavily guarded.
Character breakdown
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
铁
These are the forms of 鐵, the traditional character: 铁 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script - See all 8 forms
狱
These are the forms of 獄, the traditional character: 狱 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 9 forms
铜
These are the forms of 銅, the traditional character: 铜 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
笼
These are the forms of 籠, the traditional character: 笼 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).