内柔外刚 內柔外剛
内柔外刚內柔外剛 in English
- (idiom) To be soft and weak inwardly while appearing strong outwardly. It describes a person whose personality combines inner gentleness with an outwardly tough manner.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
内
These are the forms of 內, the traditional character: 内 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
柔
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
外
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
刚
These are the forms of 剛, the traditional character: 刚 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).