鲇鱼缘竹竿 鮎魚緣竹竿
鲇鱼缘竹竿鮎魚緣竹竿 in English
- (idiom) Describes a difficult and laborious rise. Even advancing toward a better position requires great effort.
Character breakdown
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.
How it used to be written
鱼
These are the forms of 魚, the traditional character: 鱼 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
缘
These are the forms of 緣, the traditional character: 缘 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
竹
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
竿
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).