Read Edit View history Discussion 灋 fǎ HSK4 law Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint 氵 represents the meaning and 去 represents the sound. 廌 depicts a legendary creature that was said to have been an arbiter of right and wrong. Pinyin Separate values with commas fǎ × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas 法 × Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Likely alludes to water always flowing in a given path, or water always being flat and level. Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 灋 Simp strokes 灋 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Legendary creature that was said to have been an arbiter of right and wrong. Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 灋 Simp strokes 灋 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 灋 Simp strokes 灋 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 灋 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "dong", "medians": [ [ [ 144, 713 ], [ 217, 660 ], [ 232, 630 ] ], [ [ 96, 503 ], [ 157, 463 ], [ 176, 447 ], [ 185, 430 ] ], [ [ 156, 37 ], [ 142, 74 ], [ 139, 112 ], [ 249, 359 ] ], [ [ 618, 867 ], [ 692, 836 ], [ 729, 800 ] ], [ [ 475, 722 ], [ 489, 714 ], [ 545, 715 ], [ 755, 749 ], [ 855, 772 ], [ 904, 772 ] ], [ [ 401, 749 ], [ 423, 730 ], [ 440, 701 ], [ 418, 491 ], [ 393, 369 ], [ 357, 258 ], [ 298, 138 ], [ 232, 43 ], [ 202, 10 ] ], [ [ 520, 625 ], [ 570, 623 ], [ 644, 634 ], [ 849, 680 ], [ 869, 672 ], [ 888, 650 ], [ 866, 600 ], [ 845, 592 ] ], [ [ 588, 683 ], [ 617, 654 ], [ 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