千锤打锣，一锤定音

千锤打锣，一锤定音 in English

qiān chuí dǎ luó，yī chuí dìng yīn
(idiom) When opinions are numerous and conflicting, a decisive opinion or decision is needed to settle the matter.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 千 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 千 Show the animation

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

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

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

Le caractère 一 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 一 Show the animation

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

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

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

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

千

锤

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

  • Small seal script: 錘 Small seal script
  • Qin bamboo slips: 錘 Qin bamboo slips 秦

打

  • Small seal script: 打 Small seal script

一

定

音

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

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