左枝右梧

左枝右梧 in English

zuǒ zhī yòu wū: (idiom) Another form of 左支右吾: to struggle to cope with demands coming from several directions.

Character breakdown

左 zuǒ left
枝 zhī branch
右 yòu (bound form) right
梧 wú Sterculia platanifolia

Stroke order

Le caractère 左 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 左

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

Le caractère 枝 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 枝

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

Le caractère 右 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 右

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

How it used to be written

左

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

枝

Small seal script
Clerical script 西晉
See all 6 forms

右

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

梧

Small seal script
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 5 forms

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

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