各自为战

各自为战 in English

gè zì wéi zhàn: (idiom) To become independent units that fight separately. It describes people or groups acting without coordination.

Character breakdown

各 gè each
自 zì (bound form) self
为爲 wèi because of
战戰 zhàn to fight

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 各

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 自

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 为

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 战

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

How it used to be written

各

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

自

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

战

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

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 曹魏
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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