救经引足

救经引足 in English

jiù jīng yǐn zú: (idiom) To try to save someone who is hanging by pulling on his feet. It describes actions that run counter to their purpose and take one farther from the desired goal.

Character breakdown

救 jiù to save
经經 jīng classics
引 yǐn to draw (e.g. a bow)
足 zú (bound form) foot

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 救

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 经

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 引

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 足

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

How it used to be written

救

Bronze script 西周晚期
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 12 forms

经

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

Bronze script 西周晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

引

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

足

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

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

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