寸阴尺璧

寸阴尺璧 in English

cùn yīn chǐ bì: (idiom) Time is extremely precious and should be treasured, because it passes quickly and cannot be recovered.

Character breakdown

寸 cùn a unit of length
阴隂 yīn overcast (weather)
尺 chǐ a Chinese foot
璧 bì jade annulus

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 阴

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 尺

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

尺

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 新莽
See all 6 forms

璧

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

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

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