刖足适屦
刖足适屦 in English
- (idiom) To cut down one’s foot to fit a shoe that is too small. It describes an unreasonable compromise or a rigid application that ignores actual conditions.
Character breakdown
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.
How it used to be written
刖
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 秦 - See all 5 forms
足
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
适
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Small seal script - See all 5 forms
屦
These are the forms of 屨, the traditional character: 屦 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).