利深祸速

利深祸速 in English

lì shēn huò sù: (idiom) The greater the profits, the sooner disaster arrives. The expression warns against excessive or ill-gotten gains.

Character breakdown

利 lì sharp
深 shēn deep (lit. and fig.)
祸禍 huò disaster
速 sù fast

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 利

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 深

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 速

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

How it used to be written

利

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

深

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

祸

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

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

速

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).

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