一个萝卜一个坑 一個蘿蔔一個坑

一个萝卜一个坑一個蘿蔔一個坑 in English

yī gè luó bo yī gè kēng
lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom) / fig. each person has his own position / each to his own / horses for courses / every kettle has its lid

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 一 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 一 Show the animation

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

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

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

How it used to be written

一

个

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

  • Small seal script: 箇 Small seal script

萝

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

  • Small seal script: 蘿 Small seal script

卜

坑

  • Clerical script: 坑 Clerical script 西漢
  • Clerical script: 坑 Clerical script 西晉

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

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