机关算尽
机关算尽 in English
- (idiom) To use every scheme and every ounce of one's ingenuity to achieve one's aims. It often has a negative connotation when referring to calculated manipulation.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
机
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 4 forms
关
These are the forms of 關, the traditional character: 关 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國.齊 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
算
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script - See all 4 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).