掉头鼠窜 掉頭鼠竄
掉头鼠窜掉頭鼠竄 in English
- (idiom) To turn around and flee like a mouse. It describes a hurried and humiliating escape.
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
掉
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Small seal script
头
These are the forms of 頭, the traditional character: 头 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 9 forms
鼠
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
窜
These are the forms of 竄, the traditional character: 窜 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).