三军可夺帅，匹夫不可夺志

三军可夺帅，匹夫不可夺志 in English

sān jūn kě duó shuài，pǐ fū bù kě duó zhì
(idiom) An entire army may lose its commander, but the will of an ordinary person cannot be taken away. It stresses the importance of resolve and convictions.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 三 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 三 Show the animation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

三

军

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

可

夺

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

帅

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

匹

夫

不

志

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

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