略窥一斑

略窥一斑 in English

lüè kuī yī bān
(idiom) To gain only a general or partial view of a situation without seeing the whole picture. It has the same meaning as “略见一斑”.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

Le caractère 一 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 一 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

略

窥

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

  • Small seal script: 窺 Small seal script

一

斑

  • Clerical script: 斑 Clerical script 東漢
  • Clerical script: 斑 Clerical script 東漢

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

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