枉矫过激 枉矯過激

枉矫过激枉矯過激 in English

wǎng jiǎo guò jī
(idiom) To correct an error beyond the necessary measure. It describes an excessive correction that creates a new excess.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 激 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 激 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

These are the forms of 矯, the traditional character: 矫 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

These are the forms of 過, the traditional character: 过 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 激 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 激 Clerical script 東漢

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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