问鼎轻重 問鼎輕重
问鼎轻重問鼎輕重 in English
- lit. to inquire whether the tripods are light or heavy (idiom) / a laughable attempt to seize power
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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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
问
These are the forms of 問, the traditional character: 问 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
鼎
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 41 forms
轻
These are the forms of 輕, the traditional character: 轻 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 10 forms
重
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).