陈古刺今 陳古刺今
陈古刺今陳古刺今 in English
- (idiom) Means criticizing the present through the past. One comments on the rights and wrongs of an ancient person or event in order to allude to current realities.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
陈
These are the forms of 陳, the traditional character: 陈 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 21 forms
古
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
刺
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
今
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).