寻枝摘叶
寻枝摘叶 in English
- (idiom) To pursue secondary details while neglecting what is essential.
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.
How it used to be written
寻
These are the forms of 尋, the traditional character: 寻 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 14 forms
枝
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 6 forms
摘
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Small seal script
叶
These are the forms of 葉, the traditional character: 叶 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).