反覆无常

反覆无常 in English

fǎn fù wú cháng: (idiom) To change one’s position or attitude unpredictably and inconsistently. It is especially used of someone who frequently goes back on decisions.

Character breakdown

反 fǎn contrary
复覆 fù to go and return
无無 wú not to have
常 cháng always

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 反

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 无

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 常

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

How it used to be written

反

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

覆

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 7 forms

无

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 24 forms

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

Examples

像四月一样反覆无常。

Capricious as April.

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