观衅而动觀釁而動 in English
- (idiom) To examine an opponent’s weaknesses and openings and take the opportunity to launch an attack.
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
观
These are the forms of 觀, the traditional character: 观 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
衅
These are the forms of 釁, the traditional character: 衅 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏
而
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 16 forms
动
These are the forms of 動, the traditional character: 动 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
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).