常备不懈

常备不懈 in English

cháng bèi bù xiè: (idiom) To remain prepared at all times without ever relaxing one’s vigilance. It describes constant and thorough preparedness.

Character breakdown

常 cháng always
备備 bèi (bound form) to prepare
不 bù no
懈 xiè lax

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 常

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 备

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

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

How it used to be written

备

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

不

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 21 forms

懈

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Small seal script

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

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