投瓜报玉 投瓜報玉
投瓜报玉投瓜報玉 in English
- (idiom) It means responding to a modest gift from someone with a much more valuable gift in return.
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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How it used to be written
投
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
瓜
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 7 forms
报
These are the forms of 報, the traditional character: 报 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
玉
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).