为民请命

为民请命 in English

wèi mín qǐng mìng: (idiom) People with a certain degree of authority present the people’s difficulties to those in power and voice their demands.

Character breakdown

为爲 wèi because of
民 mín (bound form) the people
请請 qǐng to ask
命 mìng life

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 为

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 民

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 请

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 命

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

How it used to be written

民

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

请

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

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

命

Oracle bone script 商
Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
See all 18 forms

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

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