四马攒蹄

四马攒蹄 in English

sì mǎ cuán tí: (idiom) To have both hands and both feet tied together. The expression describes someone who has been completely bound.

Character breakdown

四 sì four
马馬 mǎ horse
攒攢 cuán to bring together
蹄蹏 tí hoof

Stroke order

Le caractère 四 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 四

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 马

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

How it used to be written

四

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 22 forms

马

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 35 forms

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

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