秤斤注两

秤斤注两 in English

chēng jīn zhù liǎng: (idiom) To haggle over every minor detail and care about small matters while neglecting what is important.

Character breakdown

秤 chèng steelyard balance
斤 jīn catty
注註 zhù to register
两兩 liǎng two

Stroke order

Le caractère 注 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 注

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

Le caractère 两 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 两

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

How it used to be written

斤

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 曹魏
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注

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
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两

These are the forms of 兩, the traditional character: 两 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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