三寸之辖三寸之轄

三寸之辖三寸之轄 in English

sān cùn zhī xiá: (idiom) It refers to the crucial element on which the functioning or success of something depends.

Character breakdown

三 sān three
寸 cùn a unit of length
之 zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalen…
辖轄 xiá linchpin (used to fasten a wheel to an a…

Stroke order

Le caractère 三 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 三

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

Le caractère 之 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 之

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

How it used to be written

三

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

寸

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

之

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 26 forms

辖

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

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Small seal script

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

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