麟角凤距

麟角凤距 in English

lín jiǎo fèng jù: (idiom) The qilin’s horn and the phoenix’s claws symbolize precious things that are kept in reserve but are not actually needed.

Character breakdown

麟 lín (Chinese mythology) qilin
角 jiǎo angle
凤鳳 fèng phoenix
距 jù to be at a distance of ... from

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 角

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 距

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

How it used to be written

麟

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 7 forms

角

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

凤

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

距

Bronze script 戰國
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

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

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