风檐刻烛 in English
- (idiom) It refers to the cold, harsh conditions and tight time limits in the examination halls of the imperial examinations.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
风
These are the forms of 風, the traditional character: 风 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
檐
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Bronze script 戰國中期.楚 -
Small seal script - See all 4 forms
刻
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
烛
These are the forms of 燭, the traditional character: 烛 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).