无的放矢無的放矢

无的放矢無的放矢 in English

wú dì fàng shǐ: to shoot without aim (idiom) / fig. to speak without thinking / firing blindly / to shoot in the air / a shot in the dark

Character breakdown

无無 wú not to have
的 de of
放 fàng to put
矢 shǐ arrow

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 无

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

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 的

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 放

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

How it used to be written

无

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 24 forms

放

Bronze script 西周晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 7 forms

矢

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 13 forms

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

Examples

不思就说等於无的放矢。

Speaking without thinking is like shooting without looking.

All example sentences with 无的放矢

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