不上不下

不上不下 in English

bù shàng bù xià: (idiom) To be unable either to advance or to retreat. It describes an awkward situation in which one is caught between two alternatives.

Character breakdown

不 bù no
上 shàng (bound form) up
下 xià down

Stroke order

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

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 上

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 下

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

How it used to be written

不

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 21 forms

上

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東晉
See all 28 forms

下

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東晉
See all 18 forms

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

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