拏云攫石

拏云攫石 in English

ná yún jué shí: (idiom) To describe the majestic appearance of an ancient tree whose trunk rises into the clouds and whose roots coil through cracks in the rocks.

Character breakdown

拏 ná to apprehend / to take
云雲 yún cloud
攫 jué to seize
石 shí rock

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 云

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 石

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

How it used to be written

拏

Bronze script 商代晚期
Small seal script
See all 6 forms

云

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

攫

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Small seal script

石

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

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

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