作辍无常作輟無常

作辍无常作輟無常 in English

zuò chuò wú cháng: (idiom) To alternate between working and stopping, without consistency or perseverance.

Character breakdown

作 zuò to do
辍輟 chuò to stop (before completion)
无無 wú not to have
常 cháng always

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 作

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 无

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

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 常

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

How it used to be written

作

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

辍

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢

无

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 24 forms

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

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