削足适履削足適履

削足适履削足適履 in English

xuē zú shì lǚ: to cut the feet to fit the shoes (idiom) / to force sth to fit (as to a Procrustean bed) / impractical or inelegant solution

Character breakdown

削 xiāo to peel with a knife
足 zú (bound form) foot
适適 shì to fit
履 lǚ shoe

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 足

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 适

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

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

How it used to be written

削

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 西漢
See all 7 forms

足

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

适

Bronze script 春秋晚期
Small seal script
See all 5 forms

履

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

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

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