刬恶锄奸

刬恶锄奸 in English

chǎn è chú jiān
(idiom) To eliminate violent, evil, or treacherous people. The expression generally praises decisive action against criminals and troublemakers.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 恶 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 恶 Show the animation

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

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 惡, the traditional character: 恶 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

These are the forms of 鋤, the traditional character: 锄 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Clerical script: 鋤 Clerical script 曹魏至西晉

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

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