以指挠沸
以指挠沸 in English
- (idiom) To stir boiling water with one’s finger. It describes an attempt beyond one’s abilities that is certain to fail.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
以
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
指
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
挠
These are the forms of 撓, the traditional character: 挠 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
沸
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).