安国之道，先戒为宝 in English
- (idiom) The way to secure a state is to begin by taking precautions and maintaining vigilance.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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.
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.
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
安
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 31 forms
国
These are the forms of 國, the traditional character: 国 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
之
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
道
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 25 forms
先
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
戒
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
宝
These are the forms of 寶, the traditional character: 宝 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 35 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).