五步一楼，十步一阁五步一樓，十步一閣 in English
- (idiom) Describes a place filled with an extremely large number of pavilions, towers, and buildings set close together.
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.
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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.
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
五
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 17 forms
步
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
一
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 14 forms
楼
These are the forms of 樓, the traditional character: 楼 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
十
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
阁
These are the forms of 閣, the traditional character: 阁 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).