刬恶锄奸 in English
- (idiom) To eliminate violent, evil, or treacherous people. The expression generally praises decisive action against criminals and troublemakers.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
恶
These are the forms of 惡, the traditional character: 恶 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
锄
These are the forms of 鋤, the traditional character: 锄 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 曹魏至西晉
奸
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Bronze script 商代晚期 -
Clerical script 秦 - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).