强本弱支 in English
- (idiom) To reduce local power in order to strengthen central authority. It is equivalent to “strengthening the trunk and weakening the branches.”
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.
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
强
These are the forms of 彊, the traditional character: 强 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
-
Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
本
-
Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
弱
-
Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
支
-
Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).