绵绵不绝，缦缦奈何
绵绵不绝，缦缦奈何 in English
- (idiom) If a problem is not stopped while still small, it may spread / errors and wrongdoing should therefore be eradicated at the outset to prevent disaster.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
缦
These are the forms of 縵, the traditional character: 缦 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script - See all 6 forms
何
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).