掩其无备

掩其无备 in English

yǎn qí wú bèi: (idiom) To take advantage of an opponent’s complete lack of preparation and launch a surprise attack.

Character breakdown

掩 yǎn to cover up
其 qí his
无無 wú not to have
备備 bèi (bound form) to prepare

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 其

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 无

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 备

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

How it used to be written

掩

Small seal script

无

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 24 forms

备

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

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

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