吃小亏占大便宜 in English
- (idiom) To accept a small temporary loss in order to gain a greater advantage later.
Stroke order
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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
吃
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Warring States script 戰國.齊 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 3 forms
小
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
亏
These are the forms of 虧, the traditional character: 亏 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
占
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 23 forms
大
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
便
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
宜
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 34 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).