宁教我负天下人，休教天下人负我 in English
- (idiom) To prefer wronging everyone rather than allowing anyone to wrong you. The expression describes an extremely selfish approach to dealing with others.
Stroke order
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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
宁
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Small seal script - See all 6 forms
教
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 19 forms
我
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 21 forms
负
These are the forms of 負, the traditional character: 负 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
天
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
下
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東晉 - See all 18 forms
人
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
休
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 19 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).