绵里针

绵里针 in English

mián lǐ zhēn: (idiom) To describe someone or an attitude that appears gentle but contains firmness. It can also refer to someone outwardly pleasant but inwardly vicious.

Character breakdown

绵緜 mián silk floss
里 lǐ li, ancient measure of length, approx. 5…
针鍼 zhēn needle

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 针 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 针

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

针

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 西漢

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

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