毛遂自荐毛遂自薦

毛遂自荐毛遂自薦 in English

máo suì zì jiàn: Mao Sui recommends himself (idiom) / to offer one's services (in the style of Mao Sui offering his services to king of Chu 楚 of the Warring states)

Character breakdown

毛 máo hair
遂 suì to satisfy
自 zì (bound form) self
荐薦 jiàn to recommend

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 毛

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 自

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

How it used to be written

毛

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

遂

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

自

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

荐

Small seal script

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

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