垫脚石 墊腳石

垫脚石墊腳石 in English

diàn jiǎo shí
stepping stone / fig. person used to advance one's career

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 脚 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 脚 Show the animation
Le caractère 腳 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

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

Le caractère 石 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 石 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

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

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

  • Small seal script: 腳 Small seal script
  • Qin bamboo slips: 腳 Qin bamboo slips

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

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