一箭射两垛

一箭射两垛 in English

yī jiàn shè liǎng duò
(idiom) To pursue two objectives with a single action. It expresses the hope of achieving two benefits at once.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 一 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 一 Show the animation

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

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

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

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

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

Le caractère 两 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 两 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 兩, the traditional character: 两 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 垛 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 垛 Clerical script 東漢至魏晉

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

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