兵马未动,粮草先行兵馬未動,糧草先行 in English
- before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom) / logistics comes before military maneuvers / an army marches on its stomach
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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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
未
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 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).