先礼后兵先禮後兵 in English
- lit. peaceful measures before using force (idiom) / fig. diplomacy before violence / jaw-jaw is better than war-war
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
先
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
礼
These are the forms of 禮, the traditional character: 礼 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 11 forms
后
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
兵
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 22 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).