一掊土

一掊土 in English

yī póu tǔ: (idiom) A handful of earth refers to a grave. Nowadays, the expression mainly denotes a small piece of land or declining, insignificant reactionary forces.

Character breakdown

一 yī one
掊 póu take up in both hands
土 tǔ earth

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

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 土

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 孫吳
See all 14 forms

掊

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 3 forms

土

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

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

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