闲非闲是

闲非闲是 in English

xián fēi xián shì: (idiom) Trivial disputes and idle comments that are best left alone. The expression is synonymous with “idle rights and wrongs.”

Character breakdown

闲閒 xián idle
非 fēi to not be
是昰 shì to be (followed by substantives only)

Stroke order

Le caractère 非 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 非

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

Le caractère 是 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 是

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

How it used to be written

闲

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

Bronze script 西周晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

非

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

是

Bronze script 西周中期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 20 forms

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

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