坐而待曙

坐而待曙 in English

zuò ér dài shǔ: (idiom) To sit and wait until dawn. The expression suggests attentive and diligent waiting.

Character breakdown

坐 zuò to sit
而 ér and
待 dāi to stay
曙 shǔ (bound form) daybreak

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 坐

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 而

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 待

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

How it used to be written

坐

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

而

Bronze script 西周晚期
Clerical script 西晉
See all 16 forms

待

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 4 forms

曙

Small seal script

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

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