援鳖失龟

援鳖失龟 in English

yuán biē shī guī
(idiom) To gain a minor benefit at the cost of a greater loss / to make a poor bargain in which the result does not compensate for what was sacrificed.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

援

失

  • Bronze script: 失 Bronze script 商代晚期或西周早期
  • Clerical script: 失 Clerical script 東漢
  • See all 13 forms

龟

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

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

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