鹰犬之任鷹犬之任

鹰犬之任鷹犬之任 in English

yīng quǎn zhī rèn: (idiom) The duty of serving the sovereign with the dedication of a trained hunting falcon or hound.

Character breakdown

鹰鷹 yīng eagle
犬 quǎn dog
之 zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalen…
任 rèn to assign

Stroke order

Le caractère 之 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 之

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 任 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 任

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

鹰

These are the forms of 鷹, the traditional character: 鹰 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 西晉
See all 6 forms

犬

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

之

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 26 forms

任

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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