逍遥自得逍遙自得

逍遥自得逍遙自得 in English

xiāo yáo zì dé: doing as one pleases (idiom) / foot-loose and fancy free

Character breakdown

逍 xiāo free and unfettered
遥遙 yáo (bound form) distant
自 zì (bound form) self
得 dé to obtain

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 自

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 得

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

How it used to be written

逍

Small seal script

遥

These are the forms of 遙, the traditional character: 遥 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Small seal script

自

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

得

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 29 forms

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

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