射人先射马，擒贼先擒王 in English
- (idiom) One must first seize or deal with the main problem.
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.
How it used to be written
射
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 15 forms
人
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
先
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
马
These are the forms of 馬, the traditional character: 马 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 35 forms
擒
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Clerical script 東漢
贼
These are the forms of 賊, the traditional character: 贼 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
王
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 28 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).