鸟尽弓藏鳥盡弓藏 in English
- lit. the birds are over, the bow is put away (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
鸟
These are the forms of 鳥, the traditional character: 鸟 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
弓
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
藏
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).