左支右吾

左支右吾 in English

zuǒ zhī yòu wū: (idiom) Originally, to resist on both sides / by extension, to struggle to cope with demands coming from several directions.

Character breakdown

左 zuǒ left
支 zhī to support
右 yòu (bound form) right
吾 wú (old) I

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 左

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 支

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 右

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

How it used to be written

左

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

支

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

右

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

吾

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

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

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