指东话西
指东话西 in English
- (idiom) To talk around the subject or make vague and insincere statements while avoiding a direct answer.
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
指
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
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
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).