一日九迁一日九遷

一日九迁一日九遷 in English

yī rì jiǔ qiān: (idiom) To be promoted repeatedly within a single day. It describes an extraordinarily rapid rise in official rank, often with an ironic or critical nuance.

Character breakdown

一 yī one
日 rì sun
九 jiǔ nine
迁遷 qiān to move

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 日 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 日

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

Le caractère 九 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 九

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

日

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

九

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

迁

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

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

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

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