蛮触相争蠻觸相爭 in English
- (idiom) Originally, two tiny states fight over territory on the two horns of a snail. It refers to a quarrel or war arising from a trivial cause, often an unjust one.
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How it used to be written
蛮
These are the forms of 蠻, the traditional character: 蛮 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 5 forms
触
These are the forms of 觸, the traditional character: 触 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.齊 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
相
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 forms
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
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).