胁从罔治

胁从罔治 in English

xié cóng wǎng zhì: (idiom) Those who committed a crime under coercion may be exempted from punishment.

Character breakdown

胁脅 xié flank (the side of one's torso)
从從 zòng second cousin
罔 wǎng to deceive
治 zhì to rule

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 胁

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 从

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 治

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

How it used to be written

胁

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 西晉
See all 7 forms

从

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

治

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

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

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