寸步千里
寸步千里 in English
- (idiom) Although the distance is only a few inches, it feels like a thousand li. It describes a situation in which meeting someone is extremely difficult.
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.
How it used to be written
寸
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
步
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
千
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
里
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).