倩人捉刀

倩人捉刀 in English

qiàn rén zhuō dāo: (idiom) To ask someone to write a piece on one’s behalf.

Character breakdown

倩 qiàn pretty
人 rén person
捉 zhuō to clutch
刀 dāo knife

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 人

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 刀

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

How it used to be written

倩

Small seal script
Clerical script
See all 3 forms

人

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

捉

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Small seal script

刀

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

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

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