韫椟藏珠 韞櫝藏珠

韫椟藏珠韞櫝藏珠 in English

yùn dú cáng zhū
(idiom) To hide a treasure in a box while waiting to sell it at the best price.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

Le caractère 珠 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 珠 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 韞, the traditional character: 韫 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Clerical script: 韞 Clerical script 東漢

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

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

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