如荼如火

如荼如火 in English

rú tú rú huǒ: (idiom) Originally, this expression described the impressive appearance and strength of an army.

Character breakdown

如 rú as
荼 tú thistle
火 huǒ fire

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 火

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

荼

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Clerical script 西漢
See all 4 forms

火

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

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

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