如丘而止

如丘而止 in English

rú qiū ér zhǐ: (idiom) To stop when faced with difficulty instead of continuing to make progress. It describes someone who lacks ambition or perseverance.

Character breakdown

如 rú as
丘坵 qiū hillock
而 ér and
止 zhǐ to stop

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 如

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 止 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 止

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

How it used to be written

如

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

丘

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

而

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

止

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

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

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