以书为御

以书为御 in English

yǐ shū wéi yù: (idiom) To rely on book learning to control a horse. It describes someone who rigidly follows doctrine and consequently struggles to get things done.

Character breakdown

以 yǐ to use
书書 shū book
为爲 wèi because of
御禦 yù (bound form) to defend

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 以

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 书

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

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 御 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 御

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

How it used to be written

以

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

书

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

Bronze script 西周中期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

御

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 31 forms

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

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