沉舟破釜

沉舟破釜 in English

chén zhōu pò fǔ
(idiom) To break the cooking pots and sink the boats. It expresses a determination to fight to the death, leaving no possibility of retreat.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 沉 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 沉 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 破 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 破 Show the animation

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

How it used to be written

  • Clerical script: 沉 Clerical script 東漢
  • Clerical script: 沉 Clerical script 東漢

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

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