以微知着

以微知着 in English

yǐ wēi zhī zhù
(idiom) To infer the development or true nature of something from the slight signs it reveals.

Character breakdown

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 Show the animation

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

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

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

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

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

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

以

微

  • Warring States script: 微 Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦
  • Clerical script: 微 Clerical script 東漢
  • See all 7 forms

知

着

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

  • Clerical script: 著 Clerical script 東漢
  • Clerical script: 著 Clerical script 曹魏

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

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