学如不及，犹恐失之學如不及，猶恐失之 in English
- (idiom) To study as if trying to catch up with something, always afraid of falling behind and then of losing it once it is reached.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
学
These are the forms of 學, the traditional character: 学 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
如
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
及
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
犹
These are the forms of 猶, the traditional character: 犹 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 16 forms
恐
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
失
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Bronze script 商代晚期或西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
之
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).