九层之台，起于累土 in English
- (idiom) A nine-story terrace is built by first piling up a single basket of earth. It means that a great undertaking must begin with solid foundations and small steps.
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.
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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.
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
九
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
层
These are the forms of 層, the traditional character: 层 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
之
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
台
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
起
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Warring States script 戰國.燕 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
于
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
累
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Clerical script 西漢 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
土
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).