东投西窜東投西竄 in English
- (idiom) To rush around in all directions, often because of life’s pressures or in pursuit of a goal. It is similar to “奔走” or “run around everywhere.”
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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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
投
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
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
窜
These are the forms of 竄, the traditional character: 窜 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).