莫辨楮叶

莫辨楮叶 in English

mò biàn chǔ yè
(idiom) To be unable to distinguish a genuine paper-mulberry leaf from an imitation. It describes an imitation so convincing that it passes for the real thing.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 莫 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 莫 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 叶 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 叶 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

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

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

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