一发不可收拾 一發不可收拾
一发不可收拾一發不可收拾 in English
- once it gets started there's no stopping it
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
一
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 14 forms
发
These are the forms of 發, the traditional character: 发 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 19 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
可
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
收
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
拾
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).