乍前乍却
乍前乍却 in English
- (idiom) To move forward suddenly and then retreat suddenly. It describes hesitant and indecisive action.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
乍
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉 - See all 19 forms
前
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
却
These are the forms of 卻, the traditional character: 却 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).