商鞅

商鞅 in English

shāng yāng: Shang Yang (c. 390-338 BC), legalist philosopher and statesman of the state of Qin 秦國|秦国[Qin2 guo2], whose reforms paved the way for the eventual unification of the Chinese empire by the Qin dynasty 秦朝|秦朝[Qin2 chao2]

Character breakdown

商 shāng commerce
鞅 yāng martingale (part of a horse's harness)

Stroke order

Le caractère 商 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 商

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

How it used to be written

商

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

鞅

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 西漢
See all 5 forms

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

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