再当冯妇

再当冯妇 in English

zài dāng féng fù
(idiom) To take up one’s former occupation or trade again. The expression alludes to Feng Fu, who went back to wrestling a tiger after becoming a respectable man.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

These are the forms of 當, the traditional character: 当 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

These are the forms of 馮, the traditional character: 冯 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

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

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