养儿代老，积谷防饥 in English
- (idiom) Raise a son to have support in old age, and store grain to guard against famine. More broadly, it refers to preparing for future needs.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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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.
How it used to be written
养
These are the forms of 養, the traditional character: 养 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
儿
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Small seal script
代
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
老
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 22 forms
积
These are the forms of 積, the traditional character: 积 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 商代晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
谷
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
防
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Warring States script 戰國.燕 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
饥
These are the forms of 饑, the traditional character: 饥 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).