方以类聚，物以群分 in English
- (idiom) Originally, methods of governance gathered according to their kind, while things were distinguished according to their categories.
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.
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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
方
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 25 forms
以
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
类
These are the forms of 類, the traditional character: 类 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 7 forms
聚
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script - See all 6 forms
物
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 11 forms
分
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).