水牛过河水牛過河 in English
- (idiom) To emerge into the limelight and begin to make a name for oneself.
Stroke order
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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
水
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
牛
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
过
These are the forms of 過, the traditional character: 过 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
河
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).