绵里裹铁

绵里裹铁 in English

mián lǐ guǒ tiě: (idiom) Describes calligraphy or poetry that combines softness with strength, or apparent calm with an underlying sharpness.

Character breakdown

绵緜 mián silk floss
里 lǐ li, ancient measure of length, approx. 5…
裹 guǒ to wrap around
铁鐵 tiě iron (metal)

Stroke order

Le caractère 里 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 里

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

Le caractère 铁 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 铁

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

How it used to be written

里

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

裹

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 4 forms

铁

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

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Clerical script
See all 8 forms

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

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