拆东补西 拆東補西
拆东补西拆東補西 in English
- lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west (idiom) / fig. temporary expedient / Rob Peter to pay Paul
Stroke order
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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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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
东
These are the forms of 東, the traditional character: 东 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
补
These are the forms of 補, the traditional character: 补 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
西
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東晉 - See all 36 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).