寸辖制轮

寸辖制轮 in English

cùn xiá zhì lún
(idiom) A controlling element may be very small yet crucial to the functioning of the whole.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 制 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 制 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 轮 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 轮 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

These are the forms of 轄, the traditional character: 辖 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Chu manuscripts: 轄 Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
  • Small seal script: 轄 Small seal script

These are the forms of 輪, the traditional character: 轮 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

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

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