明枪容易躲，暗箭最难防

明枪容易躲，暗箭最难防 in English

míng qiāng róng yì duǒ，àn jiàn zuì nán fáng
(idiom) Open attacks are relatively easy to avoid, whereas secret attacks are much harder to guard against. It warns of the danger of hidden schemes.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

明

枪

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

  • Bronze script: 鎗 Bronze script 西周晚期
  • Small seal script: 鎗 Small seal script

容

  • Bronze script: 容 Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
  • Clerical script: 容 Clerical script 東漢至魏晉
  • See all 13 forms

易

暗

  • Small seal script: 暗 Small seal script

箭

最

难

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

防

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

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