以火止沸

以火止沸 in English

yǐ huǒ zhǐ fèi: (idiom) To use an inappropriate method that strengthens rather than stops an already critical situation. It is equivalent to trying to put out a fire with fire.

Character breakdown

以 yǐ to use
火 huǒ fire
止 zhǐ to stop
沸 fèi to boil

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 火

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 止

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

火

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

止

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

沸

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 4 forms

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

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