磨盘两圆磨盤兩圓 in English
- (idiom) To be skillfully accommodating and avoid offending either side. It describes a tactful, sometimes negatively viewed, way of handling relationships.
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How it used to be written
磨
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Clerical script -
Clerical script 東漢
盘
These are the forms of 盤, the traditional character: 盘 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉 - See all 13 forms
两
These are the forms of 兩, the traditional character: 两 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
圆
These are the forms of 圓, the traditional character: 圆 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).