意存笔先 意存筆先
意存笔先意存筆先 in English
- (idiom) To complete the conception of a work before writing or painting it, and only then begin execution.
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Show the animation 
Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
意
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
存
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
笔
These are the forms of 筆, the traditional character: 笔 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
先
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Oracle bone script 商 -
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).