觅缝钻头

觅缝钻头 in English

mì fèng zuān tóu
(idiom) To look everywhere for connections or opportunities for personal gain. The expression is derogatory and suggests opportunism and self-serving maneuvering.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 头 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 头 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

These are the forms of 縫, the traditional character: 缝 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 縫 Small seal script

These are the forms of 鑽, the traditional character: 钻 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

These are the forms of 頭, the traditional character: 头 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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