尺壁寸阴 in English
- (idiom) The value of a brief moment, represented by the movement of a shadow by an inch, is greater than that of a foot-long jade disk.
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
尺
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 新莽 - See all 6 forms
壁
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
寸
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).