不教而诛

不教而诛 in English

bù jiào ér zhū: (idiom) To punish someone for a first offense without having previously instructed or warned them. It criticizes an authority that punishes without educating.

Character breakdown

不 bù no
教 jiāo to teach
而 ér and
诛誅 zhū to put (a criminal) to death

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 教

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 而

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

教

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 19 forms

而

Bronze script 西周晚期
Clerical script 西晉
See all 16 forms

诛

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

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

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

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