浅尝辄止 淺嚐輒止

浅尝辄止淺嚐輒止 in English

qiǎn cháng zhé zhǐ
lit. to stop after taking just a sip (idiom) / fig. to gain only a superficial knowledge of sth and then stop

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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