死马当活马医死馬當活馬醫 in English
- lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom) / fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation
Stroke order
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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.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
死
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 23 forms
马
These are the forms of 馬, the traditional character: 马 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 35 forms
当
These are the forms of 當, the traditional character: 当 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
活
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 5 forms
医
These are the forms of 醫, the traditional character: 医 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).