鸣锣开道鳴鑼開道 in English
- to beat the gong to clear the way / (fig.) to pave the way for sth
Character breakdown
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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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How it used to be written
鸣
These are the forms of 鳴, the traditional character: 鸣 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
开
These are the forms of 開, the traditional character: 开 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
道
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 25 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).