针砭 針砭

针砭針砭 in English

zhēn biān
to critique / to voice concerns about / ancient form of acupuncture using sharp stones as needles

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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 鍼, the traditional character: 针 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 鍼 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 鍼 Clerical script 西漢

  • Small seal script: 砭 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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