卵与石斗

卵与石斗 in English

luǎn yǔ shí dòu: (idiom) To confront a force far greater than oneself and be doomed to fail. It criticizes someone for overestimating their abilities.

Character breakdown

卵 luǎn egg
与與 yú (literary) (final particle similar to 嗎|…
石 shí rock
斗 dǒu dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[she…

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 与

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 石

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 斗

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

How it used to be written

卵

Bronze script 春秋晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

与

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

石

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

斗

Oracle bone script 商
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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