探赜索隐，钩深致远 in English
- (idiom) To investigate profound principles and search out hidden or remote questions. It suggests careful and thorough inquiry.
Character breakdown
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.
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
探
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏
索
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
隐
These are the forms of 隱, the traditional character: 隐 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
钩
These are the forms of 鉤, the traditional character: 钩 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
深
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
致
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
远
These are the forms of 遠, the traditional character: 远 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 23 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).