卧榻之侧,岂容酣睡 臥榻之側,豈容酣睡

卧榻之侧,岂容酣睡臥榻之側,豈容酣睡 in English

wò tà zhī cè,qǐ róng hān shuì
(idiom) How could one let someone sleep soundly beside one’s own bed? It refers to a sphere of influence or interest that does not allow others to intrude.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 之 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 之 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 侧 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 侧 Show the animation
Le caractère 側 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.

Le caractère 容 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 容 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 睡 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 睡 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

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

  • Small seal script: 榻 Small seal script

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

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

  • Bronze script: 容 Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
  • Clerical script: 容 Clerical script 東漢至魏晉
  • See all 13 forms

  • Small seal script: 酣 Small seal script

  • Small seal script: 睡 Small seal script

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

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