一言为重，百金为轻 in English
- (idiom) Keeping one’s word is more valuable than a hundred measures of gold. The expression emphasizes the preciousness of honoring a promise.
Stroke order
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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.
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
言
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
重
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
百
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 forms
金
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
轻
These are the forms of 輕, the traditional character: 轻 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 10 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).