鹬蚌相持，渔人得利鷸蚌相持，漁人得利 in English
- (idiom) Describes two sides locked in a prolonged standoff, thereby allowing a third party to benefit.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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
鹬
These are the forms of 鷸, the traditional character: 鹬 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Small seal script
蚌
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Small seal script
相
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 forms
持
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
渔
These are the forms of 漁, the traditional character: 渔 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
人
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
得
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 29 forms
利
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).