始如处女，后如脱兔 in English
- (idiom) An army remains cautious and still before acting, then moves with extreme speed once it takes action.
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
始
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Bronze script 商代晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
如
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
处
These are the forms of 處, the traditional character: 处 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 29 forms
女
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
后
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
脱
These are the forms of 脫, the traditional character: 脱 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 4 forms
兔
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).