单身只手

单身只手 in English

dān shēn zhī shǒu: (idiom) To be alone, without support or collective strength. It emphasizes a person's isolation and lack of power.

Character breakdown

单單 chán king of the Xiongnu 匈奴[Xiong1 nu2]
身 shēn body
只隻 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals…
手 shǒu hand

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 单

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 身

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 只

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 手

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

How it used to be written

单

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

身

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 25 forms

只

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Small seal script

手

Bronze script 西周中期
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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