新硎初发

新硎初发 in English

xīn xíng chū fā: (idiom) To have the sharpness of a freshly honed blade. It describes someone who shows outstanding ability as soon as they begin working.

Character breakdown

新 xīn new
硎 xíng whetstone
初 chū at first
发發 fā to send out

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 新

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 初

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

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

How it used to be written

新

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 14 forms

初

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

发

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 19 forms

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

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