学然后知不足，教然后知困 in English
- (idiom) Only through study do we recognize our shortcomings / only through teaching do we realize the limits of our knowledge.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
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
然
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
后
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
知
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Bronze script 春秋 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
足
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
教
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 19 forms
困
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).