兵马不动，粮草先行 in English
- (idiom) In warfare, the transport of military provisions must begin before the troops set out. More broadly, any undertaking requires thorough preparation beforehand.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
兵
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 22 forms
马
These are the forms of 馬, the traditional character: 马 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 35 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
动
These are the forms of 動, the traditional character: 动 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
粮
These are the forms of 糧, the traditional character: 粮 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
草
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
先
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
行
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).