枉尺直寻 枉尺直尋
枉尺直寻枉尺直尋 in English
- (idiom) To accept a small concession or humiliation in order to obtain a greater advantage.
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
枉
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
尺
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 新莽 - See all 6 forms
直
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
寻
These are the forms of 尋, the traditional character: 寻 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 14 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).