发硎新试

发硎新试 in English

fā xíng xīn shì: (idiom) Describes someone who displays outstanding ability as soon as they begin working.

Character breakdown

发發 fā to send out
硎 xíng whetstone
新 xīn new
试試 shì to test

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 发

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 新

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 试

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

How it used to be written

发

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 19 forms

新

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 14 forms

试

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 4 forms

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

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