穷不与富斗，富不与官斗 in English
- (idiom) The poor cannot contend with the rich, and the rich cannot contend with the authorities. It advises people to recognize the balance of power.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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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.
How it used to be written
穷
These are the forms of 窮, the traditional character: 穷 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
与
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
富
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Bronze script 戰國.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
斗
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
官
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).