豕分蛇断

豕分蛇断 in English

shǐ fēn shé duàn: (idiom) Describes a text that has become fragmented and broken up, especially through faulty copying or transmission.

Character breakdown

豕 shǐ hog
分 fēn to divide
蛇 shé snake
断斷 duàn to break

Stroke order

Le caractère 分 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 分

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 断 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 断

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

豕

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

分

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

断

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

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

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

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