临时抱佛脚臨時抱佛腳 in English
- lit. to clasp the Buddha's feet when danger arises (idiom) / fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble / doing things at the last minute / making a hasty last-minute effort
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
临
These are the forms of 臨, the traditional character: 临 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
时
These are the forms of 時, the traditional character: 时 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
佛
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Small seal script -
Clerical script
脚
These are the forms of 腳, the traditional character: 脚 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Qin bamboo slips 秦
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).