梯山栈谷

梯山栈谷 in English

tī shān zhàn gǔ: (idiom) To build steps and plank paths in order to cross high mountains and deep valleys. More broadly, to travel through difficult and dangerous terrain.

Character breakdown

梯 tī ladder
山 shān mountain
栈棧 zhàn a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or catt…
谷 gǔ valley

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 山

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 谷

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

How it used to be written

梯

Small seal script

山

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

栈

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

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Small seal script
See all 3 forms

谷

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

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

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