斗而铸锥

斗而铸锥 in English

dòu ér zhù zhuī: (idiom) To wait until war breaks out before making weapons. Figuratively, it means taking action too late.

Character breakdown

斗 dǒu dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[she…
而 ér and
铸鑄 zhù to cast or found metals
锥錐 zhuī cone

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 斗

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 而

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

How it used to be written

斗

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

而

Bronze script 西周晚期
Clerical script 西晉
See all 16 forms

铸

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script
See all 27 forms

锥

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

Bronze script 春秋早期
Clerical script 秦
See all 3 forms

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

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