人生如寄

人生如寄 in English

rén shēng rú jì: (idiom) Human life is short, as though one were only staying temporarily in this world.

Character breakdown

人 rén person
生 shēng to be born
如 rú as
寄 jì to send

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 人

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 生

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 如

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

How it used to be written

人

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

生

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

如

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

寄

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 4 forms

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

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