专欲难成
专欲难成 in English
- (idiom) A matter is unlikely to succeed if it relies solely on one person’s wishes or will. The expression emphasizes the futility of acting unilaterally.
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.
How it used to be written
专
These are the forms of 耑, the traditional character: 专 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Small seal script - See all 12 forms
欲
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
难
These are the forms of 難, the traditional character: 难 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
成
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).