引针拾芥

引针拾芥 in English

yǐn zhēn shí jiè: (idiom) Describes things that respond to and influence one another.

Character breakdown

引 yǐn to draw (e.g. a bow)
针鍼 zhēn needle
拾 shí to pick up
芥 jiè mustard

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 引

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 针

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

How it used to be written

引

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

针

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 西漢

拾

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 4 forms

芥

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Clerical script 西漢
See all 6 forms

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

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