智者乐水，仁者乐山智者樂水，仁者樂山 in English
- (idiom) Wise people love mountains, while benevolent people love water. By extension, it refers to differences in people’s tastes and preferences.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Show the animation 
Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
智
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 forms
者
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Bronze script 商代晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 30 forms
乐
These are the forms of 樂, the traditional character: 乐 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
水
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
仁
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
山
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).