尺蠖之屈

尺蠖之屈 in English

chǐ huò zhī qū: (idiom) A temporary retreat undertaken in order to advance more effectively later. It describes the strategy of yielding ground to move forward.

Character breakdown

尺 chǐ a Chinese foot
蠖 huò looper caterpillar
之 zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalen…
屈 qū bent

Stroke order

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.

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 之

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

How it used to be written

尺

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

蠖

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢

之

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 26 forms

屈

Bronze script 春秋早期
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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