养虎自齧

养虎自齧 in English

yǎng hǔ zì niè: (idiom) Sparing or indulging an enemy ultimately causes harm to oneself.

Character breakdown

养養 yǎng to raise (animals)
虎 hǔ tiger
自 zì (bound form) self
啮囓 niè to gnaw

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

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

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

Le caractère 自 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 自

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.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

虎

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 20 forms

自

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

齧

Small seal script
Clerical script 西漢
See all 4 forms

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

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