风檐寸晷

风檐寸晷 in English

fēng yán cùn guǐ
(idiom) Describes the tense state of candidates in the old civil-service examinations, who had to write in a makeshift shelter within a very limited time.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

  • Small seal script: 晷 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 晷 Clerical script 東漢

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

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