请人捉刀 請人捉刀
请人捉刀請人捉刀 in English
- (idiom) To ask someone to perform a task or write a text on one’s behalf. The “knife wielder” refers here to the person who writes for someone else.
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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How it used to be written
请
These are the forms of 請, the traditional character: 请 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
人
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
捉
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Small seal script
刀
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Oracle bone script 商 -
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).