龙驭上宾龍馭上賓 in English
- (idiom) A euphemism for an emperor’s death, portraying him as riding a dragon to heaven to become the guest of the Celestial Emperor.
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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
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
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東晉 - See all 28 forms
宾
These are the forms of 賓, the traditional character: 宾 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).