滴水不漏

滴水不漏 in English

dī shuǐ bù lòu: lit. not one drop of water can leak out / watertight / rigorous (argument)

Character breakdown

滴 dī a drop
水 shuǐ water
不 bù no
漏 lòu to leak

Stroke order

Le caractère 水 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 水

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

Le caractère 不 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 不

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

How it used to be written

滴

Small seal script

水

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

不

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 21 forms

漏

Small seal script
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 4 forms

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

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