涉笔成雅涉筆成雅

涉笔成雅涉筆成雅 in English

shè bǐ chéng yǎ: (idiom) To write elegantly as soon as one takes up the brush, without falling into banality.

Character breakdown

涉 shè (literary) to wade across a body of wate…
笔筆 bǐ pen
成 chéng to succeed
雅 yǎ elegant

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 涉

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 笔

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

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 成

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 雅

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

How it used to be written

涉

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

笔

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 3 forms

成

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

雅

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

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

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