螭魅罔两
螭魅罔两 in English
- (idiom) Like a praying mantis trying to stop a chariot with its forelegs, it means overestimating oneself and bringing about failure.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
螭
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Small seal script
魅
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Small seal script - See all 5 forms
两
These are the forms of 兩, the traditional character: 两 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).