龙飞凤起龍飛鳳起 in English
- (idiom) Describes the rise of an emperor or an exceptional sage.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
龙
These are the forms of 龍, the traditional character: 龙 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 18 forms
飞
These are the forms of 飛, the traditional character: 飞 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 6 forms
凤
These are the forms of 鳳, the traditional character: 凤 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
起
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Warring States script 戰國.燕 -
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).