前功尽灭

前功尽灭 in English

qián gōng jìn miè: (idiom) All previous achievements and efforts are completely wiped out. It can also mean that all the work done before has been in vain.

Character breakdown

前 qián front
功 gōng meritorious deed or service
尽儘 jǐn to the greatest extent
灭滅 miè to extinguish or put out

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 前

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 功

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 尽

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 灭

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

How it used to be written

前

Bronze script 西周中期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

功

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 孫吳
See all 10 forms

灭

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

Bronze script 春秋中期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

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

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