鹬蚌相斗

鹬蚌相斗 in English

yù bàng xiāng dòu
(idiom) Describes two sides locked in a stalemate and harming each other, allowing a third party to benefit.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 相 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 相 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 斗 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 斗 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.

  • Small seal script: 鷸 Small seal script
  • Small seal script: 鷸 Small seal script

蚌

  • Small seal script: 蚌 Small seal script

相

斗

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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