穷源溯流
穷源溯流 in English
- (idiom) Originally, to travel upstream against the current in search of a river’s source. Figuratively, to investigate and trace the causes of something.
Stroke order
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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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
源
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Clerical script 西漢 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
流
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉 - See all 15 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).