结绳而治 結繩而治
结绳而治結繩而治 in English
- (idiom) Originally refers to governing in ancient times by recording matters with knotted cords before writing existed.
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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How it used to be written
结
These are the forms of 結, the traditional character: 结 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.齊 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
绳
These are the forms of 繩, the traditional character: 绳 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 9 forms
而
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 16 forms
治
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).