一治一乱 一治一亂
一治一乱一治一亂 in English
- (idiom) In the course of social history, periods of peace and prosperity alternate with periods of disorder.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
一
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 14 forms
治
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
乱
These are the forms of 亂, the traditional character: 乱 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).