栉比鳞次 櫛比鱗次

栉比鳞次櫛比鱗次 in English

zhì bǐ lín cì
(idiom) Arranged very closely and regularly, like the teeth of a comb or the scales of a fish. It is used for objects such as buildings or rows of plants.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 次 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 次 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 櫛, the traditional character: 栉 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

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

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

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