慎防杜渐

慎防杜渐 in English

shèn fáng dù jiàn: (idiom) Like “preventing trouble at its inception,” this expression means stopping bad actions or ideas as soon as they begin, before they can develop.

Character breakdown

慎 shèn careful
防 fáng to protect
杜 dù birchleaf pear (tree)
渐漸 jiān to imbue

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 防

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 杜

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 渐

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

How it used to be written

慎

Bronze script 西周中期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 23 forms

防

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

杜

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

渐

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

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 東漢
See all 7 forms

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

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