国必自伐，而后人伐之 in English
- (idiom) A country must first have sown the causes of its own defeat before others attack it. The causes of upheaval should therefore be sought within oneself.
Character breakdown
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.
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
国
These are the forms of 國, the traditional character: 国 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
必
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
自
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
伐
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
而
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 16 forms
后
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
人
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
之
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).