吃不到葡萄说葡萄酸 喫不到葡萄說葡萄酸
吃不到葡萄说葡萄酸喫不到葡萄說葡萄酸 in English
- sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
吃
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Warring States script 戰國.齊 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 3 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
到
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
萄
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Small seal script
说
These are the forms of 說, the traditional character: 说 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 5 forms
酸
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Bronze script 戰國.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).