以忍为阍

以忍为阍 in English

yǐ rěn wéi hūn: (idiom) To use patience as a gate that restrains one’s words. It advises people not to anger easily or hurt others with their speech, thereby avoiding trouble.

Character breakdown

以 yǐ to use
忍 rěn to bear
为爲 wèi because of
阍閽 hūn doorkeeper

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 忍

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.

How it used to be written

以

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

忍

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

阍

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢

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

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