里挑外撅

里挑外撅 in English

lǐ tiǎo wài juē: (idiom) To pretend to comply while acting otherwise, and to stir up trouble between people.

Character breakdown

里 lǐ li, ancient measure of length, approx. 5…
挑 tiāo to carry on a shoulder pole
外 wài outside
撅 juē to protrude

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 里

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 挑

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 外

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

How it used to be written

里

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

挑

Small seal script

外

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

撅

Small seal script

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

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