粘吝缴绕

粘吝缴绕 in English

nián lìn jiǎo rào: (idiom) In go, it describes obsessively trying to capture stones and getting bogged down in cumbersome complications instead of giving up a minor point.

Character breakdown

粘 nián sticky
吝恡 lìn (bound form) stingy
缴繳 jiǎo to hand in
绕遶 rào to wind

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 绕

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

How it used to be written

吝

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 7 forms

缴

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

Small seal script

绕

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

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚

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

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