坐薪尝胆 in English
- (idiom) To impose strict discipline on oneself, work hard, and strive to become stronger and achieve one’s goals.
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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How it used to be written
坐
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
薪
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
胆
These are the forms of 膽, the traditional character: 胆 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).