饿死事小，失节事大餓死事小，失節事大 in English
- (idiom) It says that poverty and starving to death are a lesser matter, whereas losing one’s chastity or moral integrity is far more serious.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
饿
These are the forms of 餓, the traditional character: 饿 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Qin bamboo slips 秦
死
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 23 forms
事
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
小
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
失
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Bronze script 商代晚期或西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
节
These are the forms of 節, the traditional character: 节 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國.齊 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
大
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).