出其不意，掩其不备
出其不意，掩其不备 in English
- (idiom) Originally, it meant attacking an opponent where they were unprepared and acting before they could defend themselves.
Stroke order
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
出
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
意
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
掩
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Small seal script
备
These are the forms of 備, the traditional character: 备 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).