降志辱身 in English
- (idiom) To lower one’s aspirations and humiliate oneself. It refers to compromising with worldly conventions and joining in their corruption.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
降
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
志
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 13 forms
辱
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
身
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 25 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).