取易守难 取易守難
取易守难取易守難 in English
- (idiom) It is easy to seize power but difficult to preserve it. It also describes how starting an enterprise is easier than maintaining it.
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
取
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
易
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
守
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 15 forms
难
These are the forms of 難, the traditional character: 难 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).