沈约沈約

沈约沈約 in English

shěn yuē: Shen Yue (441-513), writer and historian during Liang of Southern dynasties 南朝梁, compiler of History of Song of the Southern dynasties 宋書|宋书

Character breakdown

沈 chén to submerge
约約 yāo to weigh in a balance or on a scale

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 约

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

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

How it used to be written

沈

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

约

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

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

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

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