扶摇而上 扶搖而上

扶摇而上扶搖而上 in English

fú yáo ér shàng
(idiom) To describe a very rapid rise, especially advancement in one’s career or social position.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 摇 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 摇 Show the animation
Le caractère 搖 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 而 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 而 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 上 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 上 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

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

  • Small seal script: 搖 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 搖 Clerical script 西漢

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

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