月盈则食 月盈則食

月盈则食月盈則食 in English

yuè yíng zé shí
(idiom) Just as the full moon eventually undergoes an eclipse, things that reach their peak begin to decline.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

  • Warring States script: 盈 Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦
  • Clerical script: 盈 Clerical script 東漢
  • See all 9 forms

These are the forms of 則, the traditional character: 则 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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