沧海横流 滄海橫流

沧海横流滄海橫流 in English

cāng hǎi héng liú
(idiom) It describes a situation in which political power is deeply disorganized and society is thrown into turmoil.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

沧

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

  • Chu manuscripts: 滄 Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
  • Small seal script: 滄 Small seal script

海

横

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

流

  • Bronze script: 流 Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
  • Clerical script: 流 Clerical script 東漢至魏晉
  • See all 15 forms

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

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