以卵投石

以卵投石 in English

yǐ luǎn tóu shí: (idiom) To challenge a clearly superior force without assessing one's own abilities, thereby courting destruction.

Character breakdown

以 yǐ to use
卵 luǎn egg
投 tóu to throw (sth in a specific direction: b…
石 shí rock

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 投

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 石

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

卵

Bronze script 春秋晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

投

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

石

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

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

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