絺章绘句

絺章绘句 in English

zhǐ zhāng huì jù
(idiom) To painstakingly polish one’s prose and ornament one’s sentences / to pursue elaborate stylistic effects.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 章 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 章 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 句 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 句 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

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

  • Chu manuscripts: 繪 Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
  • Small seal script: 繪 Small seal script

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

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