续鹜短鹤 續鶩短鶴
续鹜短鹤續鶩短鶴 in English
- (idiom) It means that trying to improve something by going against its nature produces the opposite result and causes harm.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
续
These are the forms of 續, the traditional character: 续 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋 -
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉 - See all 15 forms
鹜
These are the forms of 鶩, the traditional character: 鹜 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
短
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
鹤
These are the forms of 鶴, the traditional character: 鹤 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).