本末终终 本末終終
本末终终本末終終 in English
- (idiom) Things have a root and an outer end, while affairs have a beginning and an end / their development follows an ordered pattern.
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.
How it used to be written
本
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
末
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
终
These are the forms of 終, the traditional character: 终 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).