先难后获

先难后获 in English

xiān nán hòu huò: (idiom) To make an effort and endure hardship before obtaining results. The expression values hard work rather than benefiting from what others have achieved.

Character breakdown

先 xiān beforehand
难難 nán difficult (to...)
后後 hòu back
获獲 huò (bound form) to reap

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 难

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 获

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

难

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

Bronze script 西周晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

后

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

获

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

Oracle bone script 商
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).

See 先难后获 in the search results