萧墙之衅

萧墙之衅 in English

xiāo qiáng zhī xìn
(idiom) It refers to a crisis or difficulty caused by internal problems. The expression is formal and negative in tone.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

Le caractère 之 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 之 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 蕭, the traditional character: 萧 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

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

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

  • Small seal script: 釁 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 釁 Clerical script 曹魏

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

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