蚕头燕尾
蚕头燕尾 in English
- (idiom) It describes calligraphy with a weighty initial stroke and a light, swift ending.
Stroke order
Show the animation 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.
How it used to be written
蚕
These are the forms of 蠶, the traditional character: 蚕 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 5 forms
头
These are the forms of 頭, the traditional character: 头 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 9 forms
燕
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 7 forms
尾
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).