临深履薄

临深履薄 in English

lín shēn lǚ bó: (idiom) To stand before a deep abyss and walk on thin ice. It describes extreme caution arising from fear of making a mistake or suffering a setback.

Character breakdown

临臨 lín to face
深 shēn deep (lit. and fig.)
履 lǚ shoe
薄 bó meager

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 临

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 深

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 薄

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

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.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

深

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

履

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

薄

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

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

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