掣襟露肘

掣襟露肘 in English

chè jīn lù zhǒu: (idiom) Describes ragged clothing and a life of poverty.

Character breakdown

掣 chè to pull
襟 jīn lapel
露 lù dew
肘 zhǒu elbow

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 露

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

How it used to be written

露

Small seal script
Clerical script 西晉
See all 6 forms

肘

Oracle bone script 商
Qin bamboo slips 秦
See all 4 forms

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

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