栉比鳞次櫛比鱗次 in English
- (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.
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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How it used to be written
栉
These are the forms of 櫛, the traditional character: 栉 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 3 forms
比
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
鳞
These are the forms of 鱗, the traditional character: 鳞 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
次
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).