代人捉刀

代人捉刀 in English

dài rén zhuō dāo
(idiom) To do something on behalf of another person, especially to write a text for them.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 代 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 代 Show the animation

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

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 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 刀 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 刀 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

代

  • Warring States script: 代 Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦
  • Clerical script: 代 Clerical script 東漢
  • See all 9 forms

人

捉

  • Chu manuscripts: 捉 Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
  • Small seal script: 捉 Small seal script

刀

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

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