任其自流

任其自流 in English

rèn qí zì liú: (idiom) To let a situation develop freely without controlling or guiding it. The expression generally implies neglect or a laissez-faire attitude.

Character breakdown

任 rèn to assign
其 qí his
自 zì (bound form) self
流 liú to flow

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 任

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 其

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 自

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 流

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

How it used to be written

任

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

自

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

流

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉
See all 15 forms

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

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