命蹇时乖

命蹇时乖 in English

mìng jiǎn shí guāi
(idiom) To be ill-fated and go through hardships. The expression reflects a fatalistic view of misfortune.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 命 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 命 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 时 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 时 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

命

蹇

时

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

  • Warring States script: 時 Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦
  • Clerical script: 時 Clerical script 東漢
  • See all 11 forms

乖

  • Small seal script: 乖 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 乖 Clerical script 西漢

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

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