颐精养气 頤精養氣
颐精养气頤精養氣 in English
- (idiom) To preserve one’s vital energy and cultivate one’s inner disposition, allowing the temperament to develop and become calmer.
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
颐
These are the forms of 頤, the traditional character: 颐 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
精
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
养
These are the forms of 養, the traditional character: 养 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
气
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).