东扯葫芦西扯瓢
东扯葫芦西扯瓢 in English
- (idiom) To ramble, jumping from one topic to another.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
Show the animation 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
东
These are the forms of 東, the traditional character: 东 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
芦
These are the forms of 蘆, the traditional character: 芦 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.齊 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
西
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東晉 - See all 36 forms
瓢
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).