嫁鸡逐鸡，嫁犬逐犬

嫁鸡逐鸡，嫁犬逐犬 in English

jià jī zhú jī，jià quǎn zhú quǎn: (idiom) Describes a woman who follows her husband for life after marriage, whether he is good or bad.

Character breakdown

嫁 jià (of a woman) to marry
鸡雞 jī fowl
逐 zhú (bound form) to pursue
犬 quǎn dog

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 鸡

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 逐

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

How it used to be written

嫁

Small seal script
Clerical script 西漢
See all 4 forms

鸡

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

逐

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

犬

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

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

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