山锐则不高

山锐则不高 in English

shān ruì zé bù gāo
(idiom) Someone who displays their sharpness and abilities too openly is unlikely to accomplish great things.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 山 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 山 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 则 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 则 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 不 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 不 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 高 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 高 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

山

锐

These are the forms of 銳, the traditional character: 锐 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 銳 Small seal script
  • Small seal script: 銳 Small seal script

则

These are the forms of 則, the traditional character: 则 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

不

高

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

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