何德堪之

何德堪之 in English

he de kan zi: (idiom) What virtue could make one worthy of such an honor? A modest expression used when a favor or reward seems more than one deserves.

Character breakdown

何 hé what
德惪 dé virtue
堪 kān (bound form) may
之 zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalen…

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 何

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 德

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 之

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

How it used to be written

何

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

德

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 22 forms

堪

Warring States script 戰國
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

之

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 26 forms

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

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