乘间伺隙

乘间伺隙 in English

chéng jiàn sì xì: (idiom) To exploit a gap or loophole while waiting for an opportunity.

Character breakdown

乘 chéng to ride
间間 jiān between
伺 cì to serve
隙 xì crack

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 乘

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 间

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

How it used to be written

乘

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 23 forms

伺

Warring States script 春秋晚期
Clerical script
See all 3 forms

隙

Small seal script

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

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