毁瓦画墁

毁瓦画墁 in English

huǐ wǎ huà màn: (idiom) To break roof tiles and erase lines already drawn on the ground. Metaphorically, it refers to a useless and unproductive activity.

Character breakdown

毁譭 huǐ to destroy
瓦 wǎ roof tile
画畫 huà to draw
墁 màn to plaster

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 毁

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 瓦

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 画

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

How it used to be written

瓦

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Clerical script 東漢
See all 8 forms

画

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

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

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

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