正本溯源

正本溯源 in English

zhèng běn sù yuán: (idiom) To put matters right from the ground up while tracing their underlying causes.

Character breakdown

正 zhēng first month of the lunar year
本 běn (bound form) root
溯遡 sù to go upstream
源 yuán root

Stroke order

Le caractère 正 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 正

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

Le caractère 本 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 本

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

Le caractère 源 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 源

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

How it used to be written

正

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 26 forms

本

Bronze script 西周中期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

源

Clerical script 西漢
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

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

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