添粮不如减口添糧不如減口 in English
- (idiom) When a family is poor and has too many members, reducing the number of mouths to feed is better than increasing its provisions.
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How it used to be written
粮
These are the forms of 糧, the traditional character: 粮 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
如
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
减
These are the forms of 減, the traditional character: 减 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
口
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Oracle bone script 商 -
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).