盐梅舟楫

盐梅舟楫 in English

yán méi zhōu jí
(idiom) A metaphor for a talented minister who effectively assists a ruler or leader.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

  • Small seal script: 楫 Small seal script

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

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