龙驭上宾 龍馭上賓

龙驭上宾龍馭上賓 in English

lóng yù shàng bīn
(idiom) A euphemism for an emperor’s death, portraying him as riding a dragon to heaven to become the guest of the Celestial Emperor.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 龙 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 龙 Show the animation
Le caractère 龍 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

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

Le caractère 上 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 上 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

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

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

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

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