蚌鹬争衡 蚌鷸爭衡
蚌鹬争衡蚌鷸爭衡 in English
- (idiom) Describes two sides fighting to their mutual detriment, allowing a third party to benefit from their conflict.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
蚌
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Small seal script
鹬
These are the forms of 鷸, the traditional character: 鹬 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Small seal script
争
These are the forms of 爭, the traditional character: 争 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
衡
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).