黄钟毁弃瓦釜雷鸣黃鐘譭棄瓦釜雷鳴 in English
- lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells / good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom)
Character breakdown
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.
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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.
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How it used to be written
黄
These are the forms of 黃, the traditional character: 黄 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 29 forms
钟
These are the forms of 鐘, the traditional character: 钟 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
弃
These are the forms of 棄, the traditional character: 弃 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
瓦
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
釜
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Bronze script 戰國.齊 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 11 forms
雷
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 23 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
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).