一鳞一爪一鱗一爪

一鳞一爪一鱗一爪 in English

yī lín yī zhǎo: (idiom) Originally, the expression evoked a dragon of which only fragments could be seen, a scale here and a claw there, without revealing the whole.

Character breakdown

一 yī one
鳞鱗 lín scales (of fish, snakes etc)
爪 zhǎo foot of a bird or animal

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

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 孫吳
See all 14 forms

鳞

These are the forms of 鱗, the traditional character: 鳞 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 3 forms

爪

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 4 forms

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

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