望尘靡及

望尘靡及 in English

wàng chén mí jí: (idiom) To be far behind and unable to catch up with someone. It means to be clearly inferior or outpaced.

Character breakdown

望朢 wàng 15th day of month (lunar calendar)
尘塵 chén dust
靡 mí to waste (money)
及 jí and

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 望

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 及

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

How it used to be written

望

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 19 forms

尘

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

靡

Small seal script
Clerical script 西晉
See all 8 forms

及

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

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

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