三头两绪三頭兩緒 in English
- (idiom) Describes complicated and disorderly matters whose threads are difficult to disentangle.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
三
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
头
These are the forms of 頭, the traditional character: 头 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 9 forms
两
These are the forms of 兩, the traditional character: 两 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
绪
These are the forms of 緒, the traditional character: 绪 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 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).