网漏吞舟之鱼網漏吞舟之魚 in English
- (idiom) The law is too lenient, allowing even major criminals to escape justice.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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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.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
网
These are the forms of 網, the traditional character: 网 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
漏
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 4 forms
吞
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 4 forms
舟
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 18 forms
之
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
鱼
These are the forms of 魚, the traditional character: 鱼 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).