养虎留患

养虎留患 in English

yǎng hǔ liú huàn
(idiom) Tolerating or allowing an enemy to grow means keeping a future threat for oneself. Variant of “feed the tiger and leave oneself a future danger.”

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 养 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 养 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 虎 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 虎 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 留 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 留 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 患 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 患 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.

虎

留

患

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

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