六街三市

六街三市 in English

liù jiē sān shì: (idiom) Originally referring to the six main streets and three markets of Chang’an under the Tang, the expression broadly means streets and lanes throughout a city.

Character breakdown

六 liù six
街 jiē street
三 sān three
市 shì market

Stroke order

Le caractère 六 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 六

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 街

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

Le caractère 三 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 三

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 市

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

How it used to be written

六

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
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街

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script
See all 6 forms

三

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

市

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 22 forms

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

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