强本弱枝
强本弱枝 in English
- (idiom) To strengthen central authority by reducing local power. The image is that of strengthening the trunk while weakening the branches.
Stroke order
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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.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
本
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
弱
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
枝
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).