项庄之剑，志在沛公 in English
- (idiom) To speak or act with a real intention directed at someone or something other than the apparent target. It emphasizes that the stated action is only a pretext.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
项
These are the forms of 項, the traditional character: 项 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 8 forms
庄
These are the forms of 莊, the traditional character: 庄 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
之
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
志
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 13 forms
在
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
沛
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 4 forms
公
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).