风檐寸晷 in English
- (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.
Stroke order
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
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
寸
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
晷
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).