警察故事4之简单任务警察故事4之簡單任務 in English

Character breakdown

• 警 jǐng to alert
• 察詧 chá to examine
• 故 gù happening
• 事 shì matter
• 之 zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalen…
• 简簡 jiǎn simple
• 单單 chán king of the Xiongnu 匈奴[Xiong1 nu2]
• 任 rèn to assign
• 务務 wù affair

Stroke order

How it used to be written

警

• Small seal script
• Clerical script 西漢

察

• Bronze script 西周晚期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 8 forms

故

• Bronze script 西周早期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 8 forms

事

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 21 forms

之

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 26 forms

简

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

• Bronze script 西周晚期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 11 forms

单

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

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 17 forms

任

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 15 forms

务

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

• Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 8 forms

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