司马昭之心，路人皆知司馬昭之心，路人皆知 in English
- (idiom) Refers to an ambition, especially a political one, that everyone knows about even though it is not openly admitted.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
司
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
马
These are the forms of 馬, the traditional character: 马 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 35 forms
昭
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 5 forms
之
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
心
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 25 forms
路
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
人
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
皆
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
知
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Bronze script 春秋 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).