先忧后喜

先忧后喜 in English

xiān yōu hòu xǐ: (idiom) To experience worry and hardship first, followed by joy and comfort. By extension, it means enduring hardship and working hard before enjoying a better life.

Character breakdown

先 xiān beforehand
忧憂 yōu to worry
后後 hòu back
喜 xǐ to be fond of

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 先

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 忧

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 后

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 喜

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

How it used to be written

先

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

忧

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

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

后

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

喜

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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