百闻不如一见百聞不如一見 in English
- seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom) / seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others / seeing is believing
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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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.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
百
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 forms
闻
These are the forms of 聞, the traditional character: 闻 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 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
一
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 14 forms
见
These are the forms of 見, the traditional character: 见 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).