外举不弃仇，内举不失亲

外举不弃仇，内举不失亲 in English

wài jǔ bù qì chóu，nèi jǔ bù shī qīn
(idiom) To recommend talented people without excluding even one's enemies or overlooking one's relatives. It describes impartial conduct.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

外

举

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

不

弃

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

仇

内

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

失

  • Bronze script: 失 Bronze script 商代晚期或西周早期
  • Clerical script: 失 Clerical script 東漢
  • See all 13 forms

亲

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

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

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