为山九仞，功亏一篑
为山九仞，功亏一篑 in English
- (idiom) To fail at the very last moment after nearly completing a task. Describes a project that remains unfinished because of one final missing effort.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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.
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.
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
山
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
九
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
仞
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
功
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 10 forms
亏
These are the forms of 虧, the traditional character: 亏 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
一
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 14 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).