鹤鸣之叹
鹤鸣之叹 in English
- (idiom) In former times, a lament that a talented, virtuous, and respected person did not enter government service and was not valued by those in power.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
Show the animation 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
鹤
These are the forms of 鶴, the traditional character: 鹤 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 3 forms
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
之
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
叹
These are the forms of 歎, the traditional character: 叹 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 4 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).