在人矮檐下，怎敢不低头 in English
- (idiom) To be under another person’s power and therefore have no choice but to comply.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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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
在
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
人
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
矮
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Small seal script
檐
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Bronze script 戰國中期.楚 -
Small seal script - See all 4 forms
下
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東晉 - See all 18 forms
敢
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 35 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
低
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢
头
These are the forms of 頭, the traditional character: 头 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 9 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).