佛高一尺，魔高一丈
佛高一尺，魔高一丈 in English
- (idiom) Originally, the expression warned Buddhist practitioners to beware of outside temptations.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
佛
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Small seal script -
Clerical script
高
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
一
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 14 forms
尺
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 新莽 - See all 6 forms
魔
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Small seal script
丈
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).