万壑争流

万壑争流 in English

wàn hè zhēng liú
(idiom) Numerous streams rush onward as if competing with one another. It describes a beautiful mountain landscape.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 万 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 万 Show the animation

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

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

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

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

  • Bronze script: 流 Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
  • Clerical script: 流 Clerical script 東漢至魏晉
  • See all 15 forms

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

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