开疆拓境開疆拓境

开疆拓境開疆拓境 in English

kāi jiāng tuò jìng: (idiom) To expand a country’s borders and territory. It is also expressed by 开疆拓土.

Character breakdown

开開 kāi to open (transitive or intransitive)
疆 jiāng border
拓 tà to make a rubbing (e.g. of an inscriptio…
境 jìng border

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 开

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

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 境

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

How it used to be written

开

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

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Clerical script 東漢
See all 7 forms

疆

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 28 forms

拓

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

境

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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