先花后果

先花后果 in English

xiān huā hòu guǒ: (idiom) In former usage, this described a family that had daughters first and a son later.

Character breakdown

先 xiān beforehand
花蘤 huā flower
后後 hòu back
果菓 guǒ fruit

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 花 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 花

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 果 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 果

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

后

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

果

Bronze script 西周中期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

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

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