逍
usually seen in: free and unfettered (逍遥); unfettered and beyond the law (idiom); evading retribution (逍遥法外); free and at leisure (idiom); unfettered (逍遥自在); doing as one pleases (idiom); foot-loose and fancy free (逍遥自得)
Closest English meanings
free·unfettered·leisurely
The Calligrapher — Lù Jiǎnzhī 陆柬之
Tang calligrapher and nephew of Yu Shinan; his running-script 'Essay on Literature' survives
Tang calligrapher (), master of running script — known for 《文赋》. Tang dynasty
Cultural Story
Xiao lives only inside xiaoyao — free and unfettered — and that phrase is Zhuangzi's. His 'Free and Easy Wandering' opens with the great Peng bird riding ninety thousand li of wind: freedom as scale, as release from small measurements.
Common words & phrases
- 逍遥 free · unfettered
- 逍遥游 carefree wander
- 逍遥津 Xiaoyao Ford
- 逍然 leisurely
Read the story behind the character
Xiaoyao names the ideal still: retirement advertised as xiaoyao days, the game skill 'Carefree Wander' letting you roam a virtual Jiangnan, Xiaoyao Ford park in Hefei where teens do homework by the lake. To be xiaoran (leisurely) is the modern blessing — unhurried in a city that is not.
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