万丈高楼从地起 in English
- (idiom) Every undertaking must begin by laying a solid foundation.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
万
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉 - See all 3 forms
丈
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 7 forms
高
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
楼
These are the forms of 樓, the traditional character: 楼 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
从
These are the forms of 從, the traditional character: 从 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
地
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
起
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Warring States script 戰國.燕 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).