纵虎出匣
纵虎出匣 in English
- (idiom) To let a tiger out of its cage. Figuratively, it means allowing a powerful enemy to escape, thereby inviting endless trouble.
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
纵
These are the forms of 縱, the traditional character: 纵 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
虎
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 20 forms
出
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
匣
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).