乡规民约

乡规民约 in English

xiāng guī mín yuē: (idiom) Refers to rules jointly established by local residents and binding on everyone in the community.

Character breakdown

乡鄉 xiāng country or countryside
规規 guī compass
民 mín (bound form) the people
约約 yāo to weigh in a balance or on a scale

Stroke order

Le caractère 乡 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 乡

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 规 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 规

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 民 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 民

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 约 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 约

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

乡

These are the forms of 鄉, the traditional character: 乡 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

规

These are the forms of 規, the traditional character: 规 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Bronze script 商代晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

民

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

约

These are the forms of 約, the traditional character: 约 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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