下马威 下馬威
下马威下馬威 in English
- display of severity immediately on taking office / (fig.) initial show of strength
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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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
下
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東晉 - See all 18 forms
马
These are the forms of 馬, the traditional character: 马 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 35 forms
威
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).