两面讨好 in English
- (idiom) To shift between two sides or take a middle position in order to please both parties.
Stroke order
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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
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
面
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
讨
These are the forms of 討, the traditional character: 讨 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
好
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Bronze script 商代晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).