断发请战

断发请战 in English

duàn fà qǐng zhàn
(idiom) To cut off one’s hair and request permission to go into battle. In former times, it described soldiers eager to set out and full of fighting spirit.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These are the forms of 戰, the traditional character: 战 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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