鞋弓袜小

鞋弓袜小 in English

xié gōng wà xiǎo: (idiom) Refers to the small feet of women in ancient China, produced by the practice of foot binding.

Character breakdown

鞋鞵 xié shoe
弓 gōng a bow (weapon)
袜韤 wà socks
小 xiǎo small

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 小

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

How it used to be written

弓

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
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小

Oracle bone script 商
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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