扪参历井

扪参历井 in English

mén shēn lì jǐng: (idiom) Describes towering mountains and steep, dangerous roads that seem to reach the stars. It can also figuratively refer to the hardships of worldly life.

Character breakdown

扪捫 mén lay hands on
参叅 cān to take part in
历歷 lì to experience
井 jǐng a well

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 参

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 历

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 井

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

How it used to be written

扪

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

Small seal script

历

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 孫吳
See all 7 forms

井

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

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

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