韬光韫玉 韜光韞玉

韬光韫玉韜光韞玉 in English

tāo guāng yùn yù
(idiom) To conceal one's radiance and keep one's precious jade in reserve. Figuratively, it means hiding one's talents and not allowing them to shine.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

韬

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

  • Small seal script: 韜 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 韜 Clerical script 東漢

光

韫

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

玉

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

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