善问者如攻坚木善問者如攻堅木 in English
- (idiom) In learning, a person who asks questions well should begin with the easier points and proceed gradually to the more difficult ones.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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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
善
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
问
These are the forms of 問, the traditional character: 问 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
者
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Bronze script 商代晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 30 forms
如
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
攻
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Bronze script 春秋 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
坚
These are the forms of 堅, the traditional character: 坚 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
木
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).